TUESDAY Night. Could not go to fleep till one in the Morning for thinking of my Journal. WEDNESDAY. From Eight til! Ten. Drank two Dishes of Chocolate in Bed, and fell asleep after them. From Ten to Eleven. Eat a Slice of Bread and Butter, drank a Dish of Bohea, read the Spectator. From Eleven to One. At my Toilette, try'd a new Head. Gave Orders for Veny to be combed and washed. Mem. I look beft in Blue. From One till Half an Hour after Two. Drove to the Change. Cheapned a Couple of Fans. Till Four. At Dinner. Mem. Mr. Froth paffed by in his new Liveries. From Four to Six. Dreffed, paid a Vifit to old Lady Blithe and her Sifter, having before heard they were gone Out of Town that Day. From Six to Eleven. At Baffet. Mem. Never fet again apon the Ace of Diamonds. THURSDAY. From Eleven at Night to Eight in the Morning. Dream'd that I punted to Mr. Froth. From Eight to Ten. Chocolate. Read two Acts in Aurenzebe abed.. From Ten to Eleven. Tea-Table. Sent to borrow Lady Faddle's Cupid for Veny. Read the Play-Bills. Received a Letter from Mr. Froth. Mem. locked it up in my ftrong Box. Reft of the Morning. Fontange, the Tire-woman, her Account of my Lady Blithe's Wafh. Broke a Tooth in my little Tortoife-fhell Comb. Sent Frank to know how my Lady Hectick refted after her Monky's leaping out at Window. Locked pale. Fontange tells me my Glass is not true. Dreffed by Three. From Three to Four. Dinner cold before I fat down. From Four to Eleven. Saw Company. Mr. Froth's Opinion of Milton. His Account of the Mohocks. His Fancy for a Pin-cushion. Picture in the Lid of his Snuffbox. Old Lady Faddle promifes me her Woman to cut my Hair. Loft five Guineas at Crimp. Twelve a-Clock at Night. Went to Bed. FRIDAY. FRIDAY. Eight in the Morning. Abed. Read over all Mr. Froth's Letters. Cupid and Veny. Ten a Clock. Stay'd within all day, not at home. From Ten to Twelve. In Conference with my Mantua Maker. Sorted a Suit of Ribbands. Broke China Cup. my blue From Twelve to One. Shut my felf up in my Chambers practifed Lady Betty Modely's Skuttle. One in the Afternoon. Called for my flowered Handkerchief. Worked half a Violet-Leaf in it. Eyes aked and Head out of Order. Threw by my Work, and read over the remaining Part of Aurenzebe. From Three to Four. Dined. From Four to Twelve. Changed my Mind, dreffed, went abroad, and play'd at Crimp till Midnight. Found Mrs. Spitely at home. Converfation: Mrs. Brilliant's Necklace falfe Stones. Old Lady Loveday going to be married to a young Fellow that is not worth a Groat. Mifs. Prue gone into the Country. Tom Townley has red Hair. Mem. Mrs. Spitely whispered in my Ear that the had fomething to tell me about Mr. Froth, I am fure it is not true. Between Twelve and One. Dreamed that Mr. Froth lay at my Feet, and called me Indamora. SATURDAY. Rofe at Eight a Clock in the Morning, Sate down to my Toilette. From Eight to Nine. Shifted a Patch for half an hour before I could determine it. Fixed it above my left Eyebrow. From Nine to Twelve. Drank my Tea, and dressed. From Twelve to Two. At Chappel. A great deal of good Company. Mem. The third Air in the new Opera. Lady Blithe dreffed frightfully. From Three to Four. Dined. Mifs Kitty called upon me to go to the Opera before I was rifen from Table. From Dinner to Six. Drank Tea. Turned off a Footman for being rude to Veny. Six a Clock. Went to the Opera. I did not fee Mr Froth till the beginning of the fecond Act, Mr. Froth B 44+ talked talked to a Gentleman in a black Wig. Bowed to a Lady in the front Box. Mr. Froth and his Friend clapp'd Nicolini in the third A&t. Mr. Froth cried out Ancora. Mr. Froth led me to my Chair. I think he fqueezed my Hand. Eleven at Night. Went to Bed. Melancholy Dreams. Methought Nicolini faid he was Mr. Froth. SUNDAY. Indifpofed. MONDAY. Eight a Clock. Waked by Mifs Kitty. Aurenzebe lay upon the Chair by me. Kitty repeated without Book the eight beft Lines in the Play. Went in our Mobbs to the dumb Man, according to Appointment. Told me that my Lover's Name began with a G. Mem. The Conjurer was within a Letter of Mr. Froth's Name, &c. UPON looking back into this my Journal, I find * that I am at a lofs to know whether I pafs my Time well or ill; and indeed never thought of confidering how I did it, before I perufed your Speculation upon that Subject. I fcarce find a fingle Action in these five Days that I can thoroughly approve of, except the working upon the Violet-Leaf, which I am refolved to finish the first Day I am at leifure. As for Mr. Froth and Veny, I did not think they took up so much of my • Time and Thoughts, as I find they do upon my Journal. The latter of them I will turn off, if you infift upon it; and if Mr. Froth does not bring Matters to a • Conclufion very fuddenly, I will not let my Life run away in a Dream. 4 Your Humble Servant, Clarinda. TO refume one of the Morals of my first Paper, and to confirm Clarinda in her good Inclinations, I would have her confider what a pretty Figure fhe would make among Pofterity, were the Hiftory of her whole Life published like thefe five Days of it. I fhall conclude my Paper with an Epitaph written by an uncertain Author on Sir Philip Sidney's Sifter, a Lady who feems to have been of of a Temper very much different from that of Clarinda. The laft Thought of it is fo very noble, that I dare say my Reader will pardon me the Quotation. On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke. Underneath this Marble Hearfe L N° 324. Wednesday, March 12. O curva in terris anima, & cœleftium inanes. Mr. SPECTATOR, TH Perf HE Materials you have collected together towards a general Hiftory of Clubs, make fo bright a Part of your Speculations, that I think it is but a Juftice we all owe the learned World to furnish you ⚫ with fuch Affiftances as may promote that useful Work. For this Reason I could not forbear communicating to you fome imperfect Informations of a Set of Men (if you will allow them a place in that Species of Being) who have lately erected themfelves into a Nocturnal Fraternity, under the Title of the Mohock Club, a Name 'borrowed it feems from a fort of Cannibals in India, who • fubfift by plundering and devouring all the Nations about 'them. The Prefident is filed Emperor of the Mohocks; and his Arms are a Turkish Crefcent, which his Imperial Majefty bears at prefent in a very extraordinary manner engraven upon his Forehead. Agreeable to their Name, 'the avowed design of their Inftitution is Mischief; and upon this Foundation all their Rules and Orders are B 5 flamed. ⚫ framed. An outrageous Ambition of doing all poffible hurt to their Fellow-Creatures, is the great Cement of their Affembly, and the only Qualification required in the Members. In order to exert this Principle in its full Strength and Perfection, they take care to drink themselves to a pitch, that is, beyond the Poffibility of attending to any Motions of Reafon or Humanity; then make a general Sally, and attack all that are fo ⚫ unfortunate as to walk the Streets through which they patrole. Some are knock'd down, others ftabb'd, others cut and carbonado'd. To put the Watch to a total Rout, and mortify fome of those inoffenfive Militia, is reckon'd a Coup d'eclat. The particular Talents by which thefe Mifanthropes are diftinguifhed from one ⚫ another, confift in the various kinds of Barbarities which they execute upon their Prisoners. Some are celebrated for a happy Dexterity in tipping the Lion upon them; which is perform'd by fqueezing the Nofe flat to the Face, and boring out the Eyes with their Fingers: Others are called the Dancing-Mafters, and ⚫ teach their Scholars to cut Capers by running Swords thro' their Legs; a new Invention, whether origi nally French I cannot tell: A third fort are the Tum⚫blers, whofe office it is to fet Women upon their Heads, ⚫ and commit certain Indecencies, or rather Barbarities, on the Limbs which they expofe. But these I forbear C to mention, because they can't but be very fhocking to the Reader, as well as the SPECTATOR. In this mannner they carry on a War against Mankind; and by the standing Maxims of their Policy, are to enter into no Alliances but one, and that is Offensive and Defenfive with all Bawdy-Houfes in general, of which they have • declared themselves Protectors and Guarantees. 'I must own, Sir, thefe are only broken incoherent • Memoirs of this wonderful Society, but they are the best I have been yet able to procure; for being but of late • Establishment, it is not ripe for a juft Hiftory; And to be ferious, the chief Defign of this Trouble is to hinder ⚫ it from ever being fo. You have been pleas'd, out of a ⚫ concern for the good of your Countrymen, to act under the |