PERPLEXITIES.
For revels, dances, masks, and merry hours,
Fore-run fair Love, strewing his way with flowers.--Love's Labour's Lost.
Worthies, away--the scene begins to cloud.--Ibidem.
Mr. Touchwood, and his inseparable friend, Mr. Cargill, wandered on amidst the gay groups we have described, the former censuring with great scorn the frequent attempts which he observed towards an imitation of the costume of the East, and appealing with self-complacence to his own superior representation, as he greeted, in Moorish and in Persic, the several turban'd figures who passed his way; while the clergyman, whose mind seemed to labour with some weighty and important project, looked in every direction for the fair representative of Helena, but in vain. At length he caught a glimpse of the memorable
