 oblige me past Expression, I will be your Own for ever.
So saying, he turned off, and running to an adjacent Apartment, where their Majesties, with the Princess of
Denmark,
the Princess of
Hesse,
and the Chief of the Court were gathered; he told his Master aloud, that he had the greatest Curiosity to shew him that human Eye ever beheld.
All rose with Precipitation, and crowded after the Earl and the royal Pair, as close as Decency would admit, till they came to the Saloon and beheld, with Astonishment, the Person, Shape, Attitude, and Attire of our Hero.
Some doubted, but Most believed that he was a real Statute, placed there by his Excellency on Purpose for a Surprise. Sir
Fielding,
who was the acknowledged Connoisseur of the Age, and was, in Fact, what the People of taste call an
elegans Formarum Spectator,
exclaimed with some Vehemency, Never, never, did I behold such Beauty of Symmetry, such Roundings of Angles; where, where, my Lord, could you get this inestimable Acquisition? Others cryed,
Phidias, Phidias
never executed the like; all the Works of
Praxiteles
were nothing to it!
The Earl, however, was well apprised of the Deception, and knew that our
Mereury
was no Part of his Property.  �  Son of
Maia,
said he aloud, what Tidings from Heaven ?  �  A Message, answered
Harry,
from my Father
Jupiter
to their Majesties � And pray, what may your Errand intend ?  �  Matters of highest Importance; that they are the favourite Representatives of my Father upon Earth. And that, while their Majesties continue the Monarch of a free and willing People, they are greater than if they were Regents of a Universe of Slaves.  �  All buzzed their Applause and Admiration.  �  It must be he, whispered the King � it can be no Other, cried the Queen � 
Albemarle,
whispered his Majesty, we have marked this Youth for our Own; keep your Eye upon him, and do your best Endeavours to engage and bind him to us.
In the mean time,
Harry,
on delivering his celestial Message, flew like a Feather from his Post, and casting his Cloak about him, vanished into an adjoining Closet.
The Company now began to gather fast, and
Harry,
stealing from his Retreat, kept his Cloud about his Sky, and mingled in the Crowd. Mr.
Clement
had accompanied Mr.
Fenton
in Dominos. They soon discovered
Harry,
and were highly diverted by the Account which he gave them of his Metamorphosis into a Statue.
While the
