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Madamoiselle,
YOu know the Sun with his beams chears not, nor is more diffusively good, tha•• her Highnesse with her presence. who Yesterday was pleas'd to graoe a Coun∣try Wedding here with her Company, where the Country people (you may imagine) put
on their best Mine to entertain her, and the Dauncers set the best foot forwards to shew their Agilities: Amongst the rest a Country Fellow laid about him with Arms and Leggs, so as I look'd still when they would fly off from him, and fear'd ever and anon as he approa∣ched me, lest he would throw them at my head, at Boyes do Cudgels at Plum-trees. Verily, Madamoiselle, never any Wheel so whirl'd a∣bout, nor spoaks e'r turn'd so fast, so as you could not perceive whi••h part of him was up∣wards, or which was undermost; yet did he imagin he daunc't excellent well, and was the more confirm'd in it, the more we laught at him: such Fools self-opinion makes of men, whilst it hood-winks them so, they cannot see their own Imperfections, and so besots them, as they imagine none else does; Nay, makes them mistake Vices and Faults for Im∣perfections; Whereupon I considered the deformity of Affectation, which makes people so anxious to do enough, as most com∣monly they over-do, and all Excesse you know is Vitious, as all that's vitious is ugly and de∣form'd. In fine, after the poor fellow had ta∣ken pains a great while to make himself Ridi∣culous, he gave over for pure wearinesse, and all panting, lookt about to see who commen∣ded him, when frustrated of his expectation, he was as much dejected with the want of it, as he was elated with the expectation of it be∣fore: so it exposes us not only to the Deri∣sion
of others, but to dejection also in our selves. You see the use I make of my time in every place, and how I Philosophy on every thing, with only this difference, that where you are, my meditations are delightfull and serious, wher you are not, every thing ••eems to me Irksom, and ridiculous; no more but ••he tres-humble baisemains of all the Ladies of our Court, and of Madamoiselle.
Your, &c.