Husband,
Stay more at home. I know where you visited at Seven of the Clock on Thursday Evening. The Colonel whom you charged me to see no more, is in Town.
Martha Housewife.

T.

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[No. 179]Tuesday, September 25, 1711Addison

Centuriæ seniorum agitant expertia frugis:
Celsi prætereunt austera Poemata Rhamnes.
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci,
Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo ...
Hor.

I may cast my Readers under two general Divisions, the

Mercurial

and the

Saturnine