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1. An elegant Portrait of the prefent KING OF SWEDEN, from an original Picture in the
Poffeffion of the French King. The MOTHER AND THE CHILD, a Political Print.
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For the LONDON MAGAZINE.

HARLEQUIN. No. I.

HÆC MIHI SUNT DONA.

Full many a prank,

And tricks moft fanciful, and firange conceits,
This wight did do.

HEN a ftranger (like
me)forces himself with-
About any ceremony into
good company (like
you, gentle readers),
'tis but an obvious and
a civil queftion to afk
him, Who are you, firrah? Now it is
poffible you might propofe a thoufand
questions to me, all which I could an-
fwer with greater facility than this
one. The only answer I can give is,
that I am Harlequin.

Do you ask me then What I am?
Well, but neither can I anfwer that
queftion. Leave my qualities to the
future time, which will unlock all
things; I fhall difplay them, one by
one, according to the occafion and
the time. Suffice it at prefent to fay,
that there is more virtue in my wooden
fword than in the staff of the holy St.
Jerom; that I can transform it occa-
fionally into a grey-goofe-quill- and
that my ink is poffeffed of greater
power, and of richer qualities, than

VIRG.

MASSINGER.

the facred blood of St. Januarius. To
tell you the truth, I am a devilish odd
fellow, to ufe the words of lady
Doll Saip: I can command more
transformations than Proteus : I have
more invention than Wilkes, more
wit than his honour the Justice, and
can run faster than Stephen Fox: nay,
I can occafionally put on two faces,
like Burke, holding one to the North
and the other to the South
now white, like Bradshaw, and now
black, like Mungo; or I can fay one
thing and mean another, like Lord
North and all his academy. In short,
(to cite the words of lady Doll Snip
once more) I can fit perdue at the
pent-houfe of a lord's ear, or glide in
at the key-hole of a lady's bed-cham-
ber jigging about, like a wicked
devil as I am, now up the chimney,
and now among her effences -- now
above the bed, now below it, now
round it, and now in it.

Ah! Silvia thou little romp with a rakish heart and giddy eveA 2 thou

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A Vifit to St. James's.

thou little baggage of adultery and fin - well do I know your inclinations to wander well do I know how much you love to fteal in masquerade into the fecret back parlour of a milliner's fhop, or into the fnug bed room on the first floor: faft as you can trip it thither, Harlequin can trip fafter, and will be there before you.

When a wife too, like Mrs. P. or a widow, like Mrs. C. fneaks away with a favourite half pay captain to ****'s, or to ******'s, or to Court, let her remember Harlequin, for Harlequin will remember her.

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Or when an old gentleman keeps a young lady, or an old lady keeps a young gentleman, I wave my wooden. weapon over their heads, and in a twinkling the world will fee them in their proper thapes.

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Jan.

bleed. He rides, faid I, à l'Eveques
and in the Brunswick tafte too. Hea-
ven blefs him --- if he makes as good
a churchman as his relations make
ftatefmen, he will be the eighth won-
der of the world. In the center of
the great bow-window, where Prince
George and the Earl of Bute
- (the
Earl of Bute and Prince George, I
mean) used to play at back-gammon,
I obferved the queen and the princefs
royal working a flowered waistcoat
for his majefty. Amiable virtue! faid
I, no wonder that thou art faid to be
divine, for thy charms throw luftre
around even a queen!

Chafte as the ificle

That's curdled by the froft from pureft (now,
And hangs on Dian's temple. She has in her
All the contempt of glory, and vain feeming
Of all the Stoicks; all the truth of Chriftians,
And all their conftancy: Modefty was made
When he was first intended: when, fhe
blushes,

But, left you call me a man of
words alone, 'tis meet I give you a
fpecimen of my actions. Let us begin It is the holicít thing to look upon,

bufinefs at once.

On the first day of the new year, being, like other people, in the mood to ramble, I armed myfelf with my wooden fword, and fallied through various places in the metropolis. In the first place, however, let me obferve, that my fword is gifted with uncommon faculties, and is greatly fuperior to thofe poffeffed by the dull Harlequins of our theatres; inasmuch as my fword has the power of unmafking people and things, and fhewing them in their true characters.

Being a very loyal fubject as well as a good Harlequin, I fuppofed it was my duty to pay my first visit to St. James's. I advanced towards the palace, waved my fword over my head, and then touched the outward gate, and the whole palace flew open to my view. The first place which attracted my attention was the royal nursery, where madam Schellenburg was teaching the Prince of Wales to play at leap-frog - By Jehu! faid I, is this. the employment of the future king of England? I had not half digefted my reflection, when the bishop of Ofnabrug attracted my attention to another corner of the room. He was riding a wooden horfe, which he called Hanover; and as the beaft, like all the German breed, was rather dull, heavy, and inactive, he fpurred him moft unmercifully, and made his ribs

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The purest temple of her fex that e'er
Made Nature a bleft founder. In vain were all
Our promifes, perfuafions, Reafon's wealth,
All that can make the foremost virtue bend,
To alter her: our arguments, like darts,

Shot in the bofom of the boundless air,
Are loft, and do not leave the leaft impref-
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But what is become of his M-y? I examined the clock-parlour, and the watch clofet, and the picture-room, but he was no where. Blefs. me! faid 1, where is he? Ah! (replied a wag, who stood in the corner of a gallery) do you not know that his Mis a blank in all affairs-Nay, (anfwered I) for that part, England was never yet fo happy as when its Kwanted a bead.

Not finding any thing more worth my attention at the palace, I turned down into Pall-mall, and stepped over to the left to call at Boodle's. I touched the door with my fword, and it flew open and difcovered to me two men fitting at a table. The one appeared to be a porter, with a knot upon his arm; and the other was a link-boy. I was a little aftonished at this tranfinutation myself, and wondered who it could be who according to their real characters ought to have occupied fo humble stations in life. On drawing near, however, and examining the, features closely, I difcovered the former to be Lord P--mf--t,

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