You are now, said she, so very good, that I think I must feed your Vanity, by owning, that I was once much pleased with some Verse of yours occasionally given me; but am more so now, because I understand them better; after you had talked in your usual way of Love and Constancy and I know not what; you thus, as I remember, concluded,
The Loadstone's Poles, and felt its wondrous Power,
'Twill e'en in Absence keep its Truth and Worth,
And always point tow'rds its beloved North:
But when it once the Magnet's Preference gains,
With Joy it trembles and the dear Object joyns.
Madam, said I, you do Me and my Trifles a great deal of Honour———
Hush! said she, not a word! I won't now allow you one Syllable of Trifling; be quiet and go on with your Lecture.
Please to let me inform you then, Madam, said I, that such a Wire as this, so touch'd, as they call it, or directed by the power of the Magnet, or Loadstone, they put into a round piece of Pasteboard, on which they draw a Circle; dividing it as this on the wooden Horizon of theGlobe
