droop; we must not only content them by affording them the mere necessaries of life, but cheer, by affording them, if possible, some of its comforts. Among those in more easy circumstances, we must divert the attention from the malignant character of the prevailing disease-and dissipate, as much as possible, those alarms and anxieties in regard to its nature which enervate both body and mind. If by these means we do not always prevent disease, we shall at least induce that salutary state of the system which disarms the malady of all its dangers: for, as king John says, "to fear a fever, gives strength unto a fever."

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INFLUENCE OF MENTAL AFFECTIONS.

THE loss, unworthiness, or ingratitude of friends-separation from parents-regret for past follies-anxiety about the future, prevent, in too many cases, the full enjoyment of the present. They are the fruitful cause of those "nervous and bilious" affections, of which numbers are the victims, at the commencement of the third period of life; these precursors of palsy and of gout may, in various instances, be traced to regret, to deep-felt sorrow, to disappointments, and to intense anxiety of the mind. To attempt to regulate the actions and functions of the body, without paying any attention to those of the mind, is like sitting down contented upon escaping one evil, while another of equal importance is still impending.

"The Fatal Nuptials."

"SOFTLY, gently, then, my gallant white palfrey," said he, as his horse, on reaching a piece of even sward, leaned on his bit, and showed his inclination for a canter by the road," we shall be at Florence soon enough-soon enough for me, at least ;" and then Messer Bondelmonte mused to himself. "It is too late repining, but, in truth, I have been too obedient, in a matter of such enduring importance, to the will or the wishes of others. What is it to me, that the broad and fertile lands of the Amadei family, to be in dowry to my bride, lie close to mine, if my heart is to be as remote from her as hence to the pole? What are the jewels and the gold, and the diamonds and the pearls, for which they have ransacked Florence and Venice, richer still, if they cannot create an appetite where there is none? And will her splendid robes, her velvets, and her eastern shawls, have power to hide from an unlucky husband the defects of face or figure? I am not as avaricious as my kindred, or my avarice is in female

beauty, that I adore, and had always hoped to possess, in her who should have been my bride. Yes, I would give many of Clorinda's fat acres on the Arno, for a fairer colour on her cheek and brow; I would give her tall castle for a graceful feminine— truly feminine form; her diamonds I would barter for brilliant eyes-her pearls for better teeth-and her velvets and her silks, though all of the bright Tyrian die, I would willingly surrender for a better colour on Clorinda's temper, which is dark and rough as that peasant's coat. And are all my youthful dreams of loveliness and love-love passionate, yet legitimate-the sacred and reciprocated flame of a young and confiding wife, to come to this?-And am I not to know the domestic bliss-the hallowed affections, that gather round the social hearth, when a marriage is assorted-and are all those bright soul-filling scenes of my imagination, where a beautiful bride hung on my neck, in sweet tears at every parting, and bounded and glowed with joy at my every return! Are these, indeed, to be but pictures of the brain, with no counterpart or reality? Well, well, it must be even so I have gone too far to recede, I must go on. A plague on the palfrey, how impatient is the beast-I must go on to Florence and sign the settlements, and, love or not love, prepare to marry Clorinda degli Amadei."

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