I conjure you to leave me and be gone.
SPECTATOR 123.
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8. a novel at this time meant a short fictitious tale, generally of love.
9. Eudoxus and Leontine. This charming story is reminiscent of Shakespeare's Winter's Tale. Leontine, the friend who has a daughter, may well trace his descent from Leontes, King of Sicilia. Eudoxus must stand for Polixenes, King of Bohemia, since his son Florio is certainly the shadow of Prince Florizel. The plot hinges on the fact that both of the children, like the daughter of Leontine's prototype, grow up in ignorance of their parentage, and in both cases there is an apparent inequality of fortune between the lovers.
In a letter of the same date addressed to Mr. Wortley, Addison writes: 'When you have a son I shall be glad to be his Leontine, as my circumstances will probably be like his.' He had just sustained heavy losses.
32. turned of. We should now say turned.
33. Cowley, Essay X, 'But there is no fooling with life when it is once turned beyond forty.'
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1. In order to this. In order to accomplish this.