. Thackerayana;. of Great Britain where the tenure of vassalage is still inbeing. . This seraglio is disposed into convenient alleys andapartments, and every house, from the cellar to the garret, inha-bited by nymphs of different orders. 1 Here it is that, when Aurengezebe thinks fit to give loose todalliance, the purveyors prepare the entertainment; and whatmakes it more august is, that every person concerned in the inter-lude has his set part, and the prince sends beforehand word whathe designs ^to say, and directs also thevery answer which shall be made to him. The entertainment is introduc
. Thackerayana;. of Great Britain where the tenure of vassalage is still inbeing. . This seraglio is disposed into convenient alleys andapartments, and every house, from the cellar to the garret, inha-bited by nymphs of different orders. 1 Here it is that, when Aurengezebe thinks fit to give loose todalliance, the purveyors prepare the entertainment; and whatmakes it more august is, that every person concerned in the inter-lude has his set part, and the prince sends beforehand word whathe designs ^to say, and directs also thevery answer which shall be made to him. The entertainment is introduced bythe matron of the temple; whereon anunhappy nymph, who is to be supposedjust escaped from the hands of a ravisher,with her tresses dishevelled, runs intothe room with a dagger in her hand, and falls before the emperor. 1 Pity, oh ! pity, whoever thou art, an unhappy virgin, whomone of thy train has robbed of her innocence; her innocence,which was all her portion—or rather let me die like the memorable. 240 THACK ERA YANA. Lucretia ! Upon which she stabs herself. The body is immedi-ately examined, Lucretia recovers by a cup of right Nantz, andthe matron, who is her next relation, stops all process at law. Similar extraordinary entertainments continue the evening,which concludes in a distribution of largesse by the fictitioussultan. No. 47. The * Tatler.—July 28, 1709. The Tatler describes an incident of Sir Taffety Trippet, afortune-hunter, whose follies, according to Mr. Bickerstaff, are toogross to give diversion ; and whose vanity istoo stupid to let him be sensible that he is apublic offence. It happened that, when he first set up fora fortune-hunter, he chose Tunbridge for thescene of action, where were at that time twosisters upon the same design. The knightbelieved, of course, the elder must be thebetter prize; and consequently makes all-sail that way. People that want sense doalways in an egregious manner want mo-desty, which made our hero triumph inmaking his a
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