a Chriftian. There is no malignity in my heart. You have altered my way of thinking, and I now declare for a fucceffion.Let Father Flemming be fent for, and without waiting for my being two and twenty, or minding my father's will, as there's no one to oblige me to it, I will give you my hand. Charming news! I difpatched my lad for the Fryar. The priest arrived the next day, and at night we were married. Three days after, we fet out for Orton dition. For, as to joy flowing in with a full, conftant and equal tide, without interruption and without alday, there is no fuch thing. Human nature doth not admit of this. "The fum of the matter is this: To the public the advantages of marriage are certain, whether the parties will or no; but to the parties engaging, not fo: to them it is a fountain that fendeth forth both fweet and bitter waters. To those who mind their duty and obligations fweet ones; to those who neglect them bitter ones." In the next place, ye monks, I would perfuade you, if I could, to labour no longer in ftriving to cancel the obligations to marriage by the pretence of religion. The voice of heaven, and the whifpers of found and uncorrupted reafon are against it. It is will-worship in oppofition to revelation. It is fuch a prefumption for a creature against the author of our nature, as must draw down uncommon wrath upon the head of every massprieft, who does not repent their preaching fuch wicked doctrine. Indeed I do not know any part of popery that can be called chriftianity: but this in particular is fo horrible and diabolical, that I can confider the preachers for celibacy in no other light than as fo many devils. May you ponder in time on this horrible affair. Orton Lodge, at my wife's request, as the longed to fee the place. For two years more I refided there; it being more agreeable to Statia than the improved Groves of Bafil. We lived there in as much happiness as it is poffible to have in this lower hemisphere, and much in the fame manner as I did with Charlotte my first wife. Statia had all the good qualities and perfections which rendered Charlotte fo dear and valuable to me; like her fhe ftudied to increase the delights of every day, and by art, good humour, and love, rendered the married state such a fyftem of joys as might incline one to wish it could last a thousand years: But it was too fublime and defirable to have a long exif tence here. Statia was taken ill, of the fmall-pox, the morning we intended to return to Bafil-Groves; he died the 7th day, and I laid her by Charlotte's fide. Thus did I become again a mourner. I fat with my eyes fhut for three days: But at laft, called for my horse, to try what air, exercise, and a variety of objects, could do. SECTION SECTION III 'Twas when the faithful herald of the day, The bleating flocks that bite the dewy ground; §. 1. V 1729, we again, and Spaw. A of the country we Ætat. 27. ERY early, as foon as I could April 1, fee day, the first of April, 1729, leave OrI left Orton-Lodge, and went to Bafil-Groves, ton Lodge to order matters there. From thence I fet fet out for but for Harrigate, to amufe myself in that Harrigate agreeable place; but I did not go the way I defcription came to Mr. Henley's houfe. To avoid the dangerous morafs I had paffed, at the hazard rid over. of my life, we went over a wilder and more romantic country than I had before seen. We had higher mountains to afcend than I had ever paffed before; and fome vallies fo very deep to ride through, that they seemed as it were descents to hell. The patriarch Bermudez, in journeying over Abyffinia, never travelled in more frightful Glins *. And Relation yet, we often came to plains and vales which baffade, had all the charms a paradife could have, dedica a Such is the nature of this country. E 3 de l'Am Don Sebaftien, roy de Through Portugal. 'The inha this fine Through thefe fcenes, an amazing mixture of the terrible and the beautiful, we proceeded from five in the morning till one in the afternoon, when we arrived at a vast water-fall, which defcended from a precipice near two hundred yards high, into a deep lake, that emptied itself into a swallow fifty yards from the catadure or fall, and went I fuppofe to the abyfs. The land from this head-long river, for half a mile in length and breadth, till it ended at vaft mountains. again, was a fine piece of ground, beautifully flowered with various perennials, the acanthus, the aconus, the adonis or pheafant's eye, the purple biftorta, the blue borago, the yellow bupthalmum, the white cacalia, the blue campanula, and the fweetfmelling caffia, the pretty double daily, the crimson dianthus, the white dictamnus, the red fruximella, and many other wild flowers. They make the green valley look charming; and as here and there ftood two or three ever-green trees, the cyprefs, the larix, the balm of Gilead, and the Swedish juniper, the whole spot has a fine and delightful effect. On my arrival here, I was at a loss which way to turn. bitants of §. 2. I could not however be long in valley, a fufpenfe how to proceed, as I faw near the fociety of water-fall a pretty thatched manfion, and married friars. I feveral P. 347. will find a Labadie inhabitants in it. I found they were a religious fociety of married people, ten friars and their ten wives, who had agreed to retire to this ftill retreat, and form a holy houfe on the plan of the famous Ivon, the disciple of Labadie, fo celebrated on account of his connection with Mrs. Schurman, and his many fanatical writings. A book called the See my Marriage Chretien, written by this Ivon, 1ft volume, was their directory, and from it they formed where you a proteftant La Trappe; with this difference particular from the Catholic religious men, that the account of friars of the reformed monaftery were to and Ivon. have wives in their convent; the better to enable them to obtain Chriftian perfection in the religious life. Thefe Regulars, men and women, were a most industrious people, never idle; but between their hours of prayer always at work: the men were employed in a garden of ten acres, to provide vegetables and fruit, on which they chiefly lived; or in cutting down old trees, and fitting them for their fire: and the women were knitting, fpinning, or twisting what they had fpun into thread, which they fold for three fhillings a pound: they were all together in a large, handfome room: they fat quite filent, kept their eyes on their work, and seemed more attentive to fome inward meditations, than to any thing that appeared, or paffed by them. They looked E 4 as |