The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . thofe cutting paflions which naturally attend them. Hollow eyes,haggard looks, and pale complexions, are the natural indications of a femaleGamefter. Her morning deeps are not able to repair her midnight have known a woman carried off half dead from Baflette, and have many atime grieved to fee a perfon of Quality gliding by me in her chair at two a-clock in the morning, and looking like a fpedtre amidfl a glare of fliort, I never knew a thorough-paced female Gamefter hold her beautytwo winters together. But t
The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . thofe cutting paflions which naturally attend them. Hollow eyes,haggard looks, and pale complexions, are the natural indications of a femaleGamefter. Her morning deeps are not able to repair her midnight have known a woman carried off half dead from Baflette, and have many atime grieved to fee a perfon of Quality gliding by me in her chair at two a-clock in the morning, and looking like a fpedtre amidfl a glare of fliort, I never knew a thorough-paced female Gamefter hold her beautytwo winters together. But there is ftill another cafe in which the body is more endangered thanin the former. All play-debts muft be paid in fpecie, or by an man that plays beyond his income pawns his eftate; the woman muft findout fomething elfe to mortgage when her pin-money is gone: the husbandhas his lands to difpofe of, the wife her perfon. Now when the female bodyis once dipped, if the Creditor be very importunate, I leave my Reader toconfider the a z Tburfday, 88 The GUARDIAN. N° m. N° izi. Thurfday, July 30. iJ/«i: exaudiri gemitus, iraque leonutn. Viro- Roarings of the Lion. Old Nestor, « 1~^VER fince the firft notice you gave of the erection of that ufeful rH monument of yours in Buttons CofFee-houfe, I have had a reftlefs ^ ambition to imitate the renowned London Prentice, ven- ture my hand down the throat of your Lion. The fubject of this letter is a relation of a Club whereof I am a member, and which has made a con- fiderable noife of late, I mean the Silent Club. The year of our inftituti- on is 1694, the number of members twelve, and the place of our meeting is Dumbs ally in Holborn. We look upon our felves as the relicks of the old Pythagoreans, and have this maxim in common with them, which is the foundation of our defign, that talking fpoih company. The Prefident of our fociety is one who was born deaf and dumb, and owes that blelling t© nat
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