Augur to
Julius Cæsar
:
Beware of the Month of May
, says the
British Spectator
to his fair Country-women. The Caution of the first was unhappily neglected, and
Cæsar's
Confidence cost him his Life. I am apt to flatter my self that my pretty Readers had much more regard to the Advice I gave them, since I have yet received very few Accounts of any notorious Trips made in the last Month.
But tho' I hope for the best, I shall not pronounce too positively on this point, till I have seen forty Weeks well over, at which Period of Time, as my good Friend Sir