when she interrupted me, and said, I'll have nothing of Love mention'd nor talk'd of to Night; the Opportunity is too solemn, and I'm afraid I shall grow in earnest and serious about it: We will both make our Court now only to Urania, and every gay thing shall give place to Astronomy: Let's enter the Summer-House, and see whether I have rectified the Globe as it should be, and set it right to represent the present Time, which is just half an Hour past Ten.
Madam, said I, you have done it with Accuracy: And I see you have mended the hasty clumsey Figures, that I had made, of the Planets, and have placed very beautiful ones, of your own, in their Room.
But, said she, I don't know how to place the Globe due North and South, as my Book directs, unless there were a little Compass here, placed on the Frame.
Madam, said I, there usually is such a Compass made on purpose to be placed on the Globe; but I can shew you how to set the Globe right enough without it; Charles-wain.you see these 7 large Stars here, that are painted within the Figure of the greater Bear,in
