as he shook, started, and wildly stared; and the diftrefs his Lady appeared in, was enough to make the moft ftony heart bleed: it was a difmal scene.

This happened at nine at night, and at ten Orlando withdrew to bed, without fpeaking one word, as I was informed. Soon after he lay down, he pretended to be fast afleep, and his wife rejoicing to find him fo, as the believed, in hopes that nature's foft nurse would lull the active inftruments of motion, and calm the raging operations of his mind the refigned herself to flumbers, and thought to abolish for that night every difagreeable fenfation of pain: but no fooner did this furious man find that his charming wife was really asleep, than he plunged a dagger into her breaft. The monster repeated the ftrokes, while fhe had life to fpeak to him, in the tendereft manner, and conjured him, in regard to his own happinefs, to let her live, and not fink himself into perdition here and hereafter, by her death. In vain he prayed; he gave her a thousand wounds, and I faw her the next morning a bloody, mangled corpfe, in the great house in Smithfield, which stood at a distance from the street, with a wall before it, and an avenue of high trees up to the door; and pot in the country, as the Tatler fays.

Euftace

Euftace fled, when he thought fhe was expiring, (though the lived for an hour after, to relate the cafe to her maid, who heard her groan, and came into her room) and went from Dublin to a little lodge he had in the country, about twenty miles from town. The magiftrates, in a short time, had information where he was; and one John Manfel, a constable, a bold and ftrong man, undertook, for a reward, to apprehend him. To this purpose, he fet out immediately, with a cafe of piftols, and a hanger, and lurked feveral days and nights in the fields, before he could find an opportunity of coming at him; for Euftace lived by himself in the houfe, well fecured by ftrong doors and bars, and only went out now and then, to an alehouse, the master of which was his friend, Near it, at laft, about break of day, Manfel chanced to find him, and, upon his refufing to be made a prifoner, and cocking a piftol to fhoot the officer of juftice, both their piftols were discharged at once, and they both dropt down dead men. Euftace was shot in the heart, and the conftable in the brain. They were both brought to Dublin on one of the little low-back'd cars there used; and I was one of the boys that followed the car, from the beginning of James-ftreet, the out-fide of the city, all thro' the town, Eustace's head hung dangling

near

near the ground, with his face upwards, and his torn bloody breast bare;

faces of the dead I have feen,

and of all the

none ever look

ed like his. There was an anxiety, a rage, a horror, and a despair to be feen in it, that no pencil could express.

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nued.

§. 3. Thus fell Eustace in the 29th year The apoloof his age, and by his hand his virtuous, married beautiful, and ingenious wife: and what are ftate contiwe to learn from thence? is it, that on such accounts, we ought to dread wedlock, and never be concerned with a wife; No, furely; but to be from thence convinced, that it is neceffary, in order to a happy marriage, to bring the will to the obedience of reason, and acquire an equanimity in the general tenour of life. Of all things in this world, moral dominion, or the empire over ourselves, is not only the most glorious, as reafon is the fuperior nature of man, but the most valuable, in respect of real human happiness. A conformity to reafon, or good fenfe, and to the inclination of our neighbours, with very little money, may produce great and lafting felicity; but without this fubfervience to our own reafon, complaifance to company, and foftness and benevolence to all around us, the greatest mifery does frequently fprout from the largeft ftock of fortunes.

It was by ungoverned paffions, that Euface murdered his wife and died himself, the most miferable and wretched of all human beings. He might have been the happieft of mortals, if he had conformed to the dictates of reason, and foftened his paffions, as well for his own ease, as in compliance to a creature formed with a mind of a quite different make from his own. There is a fort of sex in fouls; and, exclufive of that love and patience which our religion requires, every couple fhould remember, that there are things which grow out of their very natures, that are pardonable, when confidered as fuch. Let them not, therefore, be fpying out faults, nor find a fatisfaction in reproaching; but let them examine to what confequences their ideas tend, and refolve to cease from cherishing them, when they lead to contention and mischief. Let them both endeavour to amend what is wrong in each other, and act as becomes their character, in practifing the focial duties of married perfons, which are fo frequently and strongly inculcated by revelation and natural reason; and then, instead of matrimony's being a burthen, and hanging a weight upon our very beings, there will be no appearance of evil in it, but harmony and joy will shed unmixed felicities on them: they will live in no low degree of beatitude in the suburbs of heaven. This

This was my cafe: wedlock to me became the greateft bleffing; a scene of the moft refined friendship, and a condition to which nothing can be added to complete the sum of human felicity. So I found the holy and fublime relation, and in the wilds of Westmoreland, enjoyed a happiness as great as human nature is capable of, on this planet. Senfible to all the ties of focial truth and honour, my partner and I lived in perfect felicity, on the products of our folitary farm. The amiable difpofitions of her mind, chearfulness, good nature, difcretion, and diligence, gave a perpetual dignity and luftre to the grace and lovelinefs of her perfon; and as I did all that love and fidelity could do, by practising every rule of caution, prudence, and justice, to prevent variance, foften cares, and preferve affection undiminished, the harmony of our state was unmixed and divine. Since the primitive inftitution of the relation, it never existed in a more delightful manner. Devoted to each other's heart, we defired no other happiness in this world, than to pafs life away together in the folitude we were in. We lived, hoped, and feared but for each other; and made it our daily ftudy to be what revealed religion prefcribes, and the concurrent voice of nature requires, in the facred tie. Do fo likewife, ye mortals, who intend to marry, and ye may, like us, be

happy.