ADVERTISEMENT.

There is newly published The Present State of Europe; or, The Historical and Political Mercury: Giving an Account of all the publick and private Occurrences that are most considerable in every Court, for the Months of August and September, 1690. With curious Reflections upon every State. To be continued Monthly from the Original, published at the Hague by the Authority of the States of Holland and West-Friesland. Sold by John Harris at the Harrow in the Poultrey.

There is newly published A plain Relation of the late Action at Sea, between the English and Dutch, and the French Fleets, from June 22th. to July 5th. last: With Reflections thereupon, and upon the Present State of the Nation, &c.

Written by the Author of the Reflections upon the last Years Occurrences, &c. London, Printed for John Harris at the Harrow in the Poultrey, Price 1 s.

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PREFACE.

Ladies,

In the Tacker together of Mundus Muliebris, As it was a very great Piece of ill Manners, to unlock your Dressing-Rooms without your Leave, so was it no less indecent in him to expose your Wardrobes to the World, especially in such a Rhapsody of Rhime Doggeril as looks much more like an Inventory than a Poem; however, he has only pilfer'd away the Names of your Varieties without doing ye any other Mischief; for there is nothing to be found in all his Index, nor his Dictionary neither, but what becomes a Person of Quality to give, and a Person of Quality to receive; and indeed, considering how frail the mortal Estates of mortal Gentlemen are, it argues but a common Prudence in Ladies to take Advantage of the Kindness of their Admirers; to make Hay while the Sun shines; well knowing how often they are inveigl'd out of their Jointures upon all Occasions: Besides, it is a general Desire in Men, that their Ladies should keep Home, and