""Tis to your Uncle's Cot you wish to run, "To learn to live at ease and be undone

;

"Him you can love, who lost his whole Estate,
"And I, who gain you Fortunes, have your Hate;
" "Tis in my absence, you yourselves enjoy :
"Tom! are you glad to lose me ?....tell me, boy :
"Yes! does he answer?"-"Yes! upon my Soul;'
"No Awe, no Fear, no Duty, no Controul!
"Away! away! ten thousand Devils seize

"All I possess, and plunder where they please!. "What's Wealth to me?—yes, yes! it gives me sway, "And you shall feel it-Go! begone, I say."

AMUSEMENTS.

Common Amusements of a Bathing-place. - Morning Rides, Walks, &c.-Company resorting to the Town.-Different choice of Lodgings.-Cheap Indulgences.-Sea-side Walks.Wealthy Invalid.—Sunimer-Evening on the Sands.-Sea Productions." Water parted from the Sea."-Winter Views serene. In what cases to be avoided. — Sailing upon the River.-A small Islet of Sand 'off the Coast.-Visited by Company.-Covered by the Flowing of the Tide.-Adventure in that Place.

LETTER IX.

AMUSEMENTS.

Of our Amusements ask you ?—We amuse
Ourselves and Friends with Sea-side Walks and Views,
Or take a Morning Ride, a Novel, or the News;
Or, seeking nothing, glide about the Street,
And so engag'd, with various Parties meet;
Awhile we stop, discourse of Wind and Tide,
Bathing and Books, the Raffle and the Ride:
Thus, with the aid which Shops and Sailing give,
Life passes on; 'tis Labour, but we live.

When Evening comes, our Invalids awake, Nerves cease to tremble, Heads forbear to ache; Then cheerful Meals the sunken Spirits raise, Cards or the Dance, Wine, Visiting or Plays.

Soon as the Season comes, and Crowds arrive, To their superior Rooms the Wealthy drive; Others look round for Lodging snug and small, Such is their taste-they 've hatred to an Hall: