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From the Franklin Gazette.

The happiest Impromptu in the English language, is the following by Dr. Young.

The doctor is related to have been walking in his garden at Welwyn, with lady Elizabeth Lee, whom he afterwards married, and another female friend. The duke of Wharton, his patron, stept at the doctor's door, and sent a message to him requesting to see him. Dr. Young told the servant who brought it to inform his grace, that he was engaged, and could not come. The ladies insisted that he should go, lest his grace should be offended; and playfully taking hold of his arms, led him towards the house. When they had come to the gate of the garden, the doctor turned round to the ladies, and laying his hands upon his breast, bowed, and said,

Thus Adam look'd, when from the garden driv'n,
And thus disputed orders sent from Heav'n:
Like him I go. but yet to go am loth;
Like him I go. for angels drove us both.
Hard was his fate, but mine still more unkind,
His Eve went with him—mine remains behind.