little surprised and troubled at it; but the
counsellor we have already spoken of being near at hand, soon composed
her mind, by suggesting to her the worthy family her lover was sprung
from; that the community of the gipseys was more happy, and less
disreputable than she imagined, that the person of her lover was quite
amiable, and that he had good nature, and love enough to make her happy
in any condition.

As these suggestions entirely satisfied her, the lovers in a few days set
out for Bath, where they lawfully solemnized their nuptials with great
gaiety and splendour, and were those two persons whom many of the old
slanders at Bath remembered for many years after to have made such an
eclat, but nobody could, at the time, conjecture who they were, which was
the occasion of much speculation and many false surmises.

We cannot conclude on this head, but with the deserved praises of our
hero, from whose mouth we have had repeated assurance, that, during their
voyage to Dartmouth, and their journey from thence to Bath, not the least
indignity was offered to the innocence or modesty of his dear Miss Gray.

Our lovers began to be at length weary of the same repeated rounds of
pleasure at Bath, for at that time the wit of man had not reached so high
as the invention of that most charming, entertaining, never-cloying
diversion, called E, O, which seems to have been reserved among the
secrets of fate to do honour to the present age; for upon the nicest
scrutiny, we are quite convinced it is entirely new, and cannot find the
least traces of its being borrowed from any nation under the sun; for,
though we have with great pains and labour inquired into all the games
and diversions of the ancients; though we have followed untutored Indians
through all their revels, and though we have accurately examined into the
dull pleasures of the uncouth Hottentots; yet in all these we find either
some marks of ingenuity to exercise and refresh the mind, or something of
labour to invigorate the body;--we therefore could not avoid interrupting
our history, to do honour to this truly interesting and original game.

Our lovers having left Bath, visited next the city of Bristol, where they
stayed some time, and caused more speculation there than they had before
done at Bath, and did as much damage to that city as the famous Lucullus
did at Rome, on his return from his victorious expedition; we have some
reason to think they first introduced t