Lie down in death, and mingle with the dust.

ETHICUS.

New-York, July 7, 1796.

The quoted line “Like the young blossom fed with vernal dew” is from Falconer, The Shipwreck, 1762.


For the New-York Weekly Magazine.


AN EPISTLE FROM OCTAVIA TO ANTHONY.
From the French.

BY MATILDA.