,
For things are as they were.
Venus.
Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last:
Nature is my kindly care;
Mars destroys, and I repair;
Take me, take me, while you may,
Venus comes not ev'ry day.
Chorus.
Take her, take her, while you may,
Venus comes not ev'ry day.
Chronos.
The world was then so light,
I scarcely felt the weight;
Joy rul'd the day, and love the night.
But since the queen of pleasure left the ground,
I faint, I lag,
And feebly drag
The pond'rous orb around.
Momus
pointing to Diana.
All, all, of a piece throughout;
The chace had a beast in view;
to Mars.
Thy wars brought nothing about;
to Venus.
Thy lovers were all untrue,
to Janus.
'Tis well an old age is out,
And time to begin a new.

Chorus.
All, all, of a piece throughout;
Thy chace had a beast in view;
Thy wars brought nothing about;
Thy lovers were all untrue;
'Tis well an old age is out,
And time to begin a new.

In this happy manner did we pass the night in this wild and frightful part of the world, and for three succeeding evenings and days, enjoyed as much true satisfaction as it was possible for mortals to feel. Price was an ingenious, chearful, entertaining man, and his wife had not only sense more than ordinary, but was one of the best of women. I was prodigiously pleased with her conversation. Tho' she was no woman of letters, nor had any books in her house except the Bible, Barrow's and Wichcott's sermons, Howell's History of the World, and the History of England, yet from these few, a great memory, and an extraordinary conception of things, had collected a valuable knowledge, and she talked with an ease and perspicuity that was wonderful. On religious subjects she astonished me.

The nature, end, and design of christianity, considered in a conversation.
As Sunday was one of the days I stayed there, and Price was obliged in the afternoon to be from home, I passed it in conversation with his wife. The day introduced religion,

and among other things, I asked her, which she thought the best evidences of christianity? The prophecies or the miracles?

Neither: (Mrs. Price replyed). The prophecies of the Messiah recorded in the old testament are a good proof of the