May
he found his usual Treat very much changed for the worse, and has been forced to feed ever since upon Green Tea.
As I begun this Critical Season with a
Caveat
to the Ladies, I shall conclude it with a
Congratulation
, and do most heartily wish them Joy of their happy Deliverance.
They may now reflect with Pleasure on the Dangers they have escaped, and look back with as much Satisfaction on their Perils that threat'ned them, as their Great-Grandmothers did formerly on the Burning Plough-shares, after having passed through the
Ordeal Tryal.
The Instigations of the Spring are now abated. The Nightingale gives over her Love-labourd Song, as