this case, urged me to our mutual relief, it would have been cruel indeed to have suffer'd the youth to burst with straining, when the remedy was so obvious, and so near at hand.
Accordingly we took to a bench, whilst Emily and her spark, who belonged it seems to the sea, stood at the side-board, drinking to our good voyage, for as the last observ'd, we were well under weigh, with a fair wind up channel, and full freighted: nor indeed were we long before we finished our trip to Cythera, and unloaded in the old haven; but as the circumstances did not admit of much variation, I shall spare you the description. At the same time, allow me to place you here an excuse I am conscious of owing you, for having perhaps too much affected the figurative style; though surely it can pass no where more allowably than in a subject which is so properly the province of poetry, nay! is poetry itself, pregnant with every flower of imagination, and loving metaphors, even were
