Scandalum Magnatum.

What is the World come to? Must every Body be allowed to—?

He had by this time filled a new Pipe and applying it to his Lips, when we expected the last Word of his Sentence, put us off with a Whiff of Tobacco; which he redoubled with so much Rage and Trepidation, that he almost stifled the whole Company. After a short Pause, I owned that I thought the

Spectator

had gone too far in writing so many Letters of my Lady

Q—p—t—s'

s Name;

but however

, says I,

he has made a little Amends for it in his next Sentence, where he leaves a blank Space without so much as a Consonant to direct us? I mean