Oct. 15.

OSE is quite in good Spiritts now, and we go on most harmoniouslie and happilie. Alle our Tastes are now in common; and I never more enjoyed this Union of Seclusion and Society. Besides, Mr. Agnew is more than commonlie kind, and never speaks sternlie or sharplie to me now. Indeed, this Morning, looking thoughtfullie at me, he sayd, "I know

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not, Cousin, what Change has come over

you, but you are now alle that a wise "Man coulde love and approve." I sayd, It must be owing then to Dr. Jeremy Taylor, who had done me more goode, it woulde seeme, in three Lessons, than he or Mr. Milton coulde imparte in thirty or three hundred. He sayd he was inclined to attribute it to a higher Source than that; and yet, there was doubtlesse a great Knack in teaching, and there was

a

He

a good deal in liking the Teacher. had alwaies hearde the Doctor spoken of as a good, pious, and clever Man, though rather too high a Prelatist. I sayd, "There were good Men of alle Sorts: "there was Mr. Milton, who woulde

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pull the Church down; there was "Mr. Agnew, who woulde only have it "mended; and there was Dr. Jeremy Taylor, who was content with it as it "stoode. Then Rose askt me of the puritanicall Preachers. Then I showed her how they preached, and made her laugh. But Mr. Agnew woulde not laugh. But I made him laugh at last. Then he was angrie with himself and with me; only not very angry; and sayd, I had a Right to a Name which he knew had been given me, of "cleaving Mischief." I knew not he knew of it, and was checked, though I laught it off.

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Oct. 16.

ALKING together, this Morning, Rose was avised "Did Mr. Milton

to say,

"ever tell you the Adventures of the Italian Lady?"

Rely on it he never did,"

said Mr. Agnew.-" Milton is as modest a

"Man as ever breathed-alle Men of first "class Genius are soe."

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"What was the

"Adventure?" I askt, curiouslie. "Why, "I neede not tell you, Moll, that John Milton, as a Youth, was extremelie handsome, even beautifull. His Colour "came and went soe like a Girl's, that "we of Christ's College used to call him. "the Lady,' and thereby annoy him noe

"little.

One summer Afternoone he and "I and young King (Lycidas, you know) "had started on a country Walk, (the "Countrie is not pretty, round Cambridge) "when we met in with an Acquaintance "whom Mr. Milton affected not, soe he