HISTORY O F PORT I A. WRITTEN by a LADY. What's female beauty but an air divine, Thefe, like the fun, irradiate all between; Some none refift, though not exceeding fair. Dr. Young's Univers. Paff. Vol. II. LONDON: Printed for R. WITHY, at the Dunciad in Cornhill; MDCCLIX. 250. q. 207. W HEN this fubject came first under my confideration, among the many circumftances of advantage which, in my opinion, resulted evidently from a diligent use of it, there were none that engaged my attention fo closely, as the happiness my fair countrywomen were by this means likely to derive from the conjugal ftate; in regard to which, all the reft may be efteemed as little more than a kind of prelude, confifting however of a great variety of parts, that ought to be played over with the utVOL. II. B most |