The Virginia Gazette

The MONITOR.

N. 14.

Nil adeo magnum, nec tam mirabile quicquam
Principio, quod non definant mirarier omnes---Paulatim.
LUCRET. Lib. ii.

The great Regard I have to the Memory of a deceas'd Friend, obliges me to postpone the Paper I intended for this Day, to give Place to This.

By particular Desire, and for the Benefit of Mankind in general, I must inform the Public, That on Monday the Sixth Day of December next, in the Evening, between the Hours of Five and Nine, will be Sold, by Inch of Candle, at our Club-Room, a small, but curious, Collection of RARITIES, Part of the Personal Estate of my old Friend Jack Nearfight, deceas'd.

The Condition of Sale, is Six Months Credit, giving good Security, to be paid in Current Money.

Lot the First.
The Timpanum, or Drum, of a Mouse's Ear.

Lot the Second.
The Eye of a Pismire.

Lot the Third.
The Uvula of a Grey Fly.

Lot the Fourth.
The Clavicula Ditto, very perfect, with all its Parts, viz. The Jugulum, Trachea Arteria, and the Oesophagus.

Lot the Fifth.
The Diaphragm of a Louse.

Lot the Sixth.
The Heart of a Flea, in its Pericardium.

Lot the Seventh,
The Pleura, and Lungs of a Musquetto.

Lot the Eighth.
The Os Pubis of a Wasp.

Lot the Ninth.
A Skull-Can made out of the false Belly of a Pomum, neatly dres'd: With many other Curiosities of the like Kind. Also several Pieces of Poetry, particularly One upon a Spider, which was the first Production of his Brain after he became a Virtuoso. This Piece is neatly Fram'd, with a Glass before it : and to encourage the Sale, we Shall give our Readers a Copy of it.

Artist, who underneath the Table,
Thy curious Texture hast display'd,
Who, if we may believe the Fable,
Was once a lovely blooming Maid

Infidious, restless, watchful Spider,
Fear no officious Damsel's Broom :
Extend thy artful Fabric wider,
And spread thy Banners round my Room.

Swept from the rich Man's costly Ceiling,
Thou'rt welcome to my dirty Roof ;
Here thou may'st find a peaceful Dwelling:
Here undisturb'd attend thy Woof.

Whilst I thy wondrous Fabrick stare at,
And think on hapless Poet's Fate ;
Like thee, confin'd to lonely Garret,
And rudely banish'd Rooms of State.

And as from out thy tortur'd Body,
Thou draw'st thy tender Strings with Pain,
So does He labour, like a Niddy,
To Spin Materials from his Brain.

He for some fluttering tawdry Creature,
That Spreads her Charms before his Eyes
And that's a Conquest little better :
Than thine o'er Captive Butter-Fly.

Thus far 'tis plain you both agree,
Your Deaths perhaps may better shew it,
Tis Ten to One, but Penury,
Ends both the Spider, and the Poet.

There is likewise a Satyr, upon the Freshes of James-River. And a Panegyrick, upon the Oysters of York-River.------Query. What Gentleman has the best----r--- With several Enigmas, Epigrams, &c. Catalogues will be delivered Gratis, at the Place of Sale. And, as we apprehend this Collection to be of singular Service to all Gentlemen, Physicians, and others, ( particularly to those unacquainted with Anatomy, as well as to the Curious, ) we flatter our selves that each Lot may be Sold to its real Worth.

N. B. Virtuoso's are allow'd to view the Goods from the last of this Month, to the Day of Sale, Sunday excepted.