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 Mr D curious Sermon on MALT.

Dearly beloved,

ET me crave your serious attention, for I am a little man come at a short warning, to preach a brief sermon to a thin audience, in an unworthy pulpit. Now beloved my tex is MALT; which I cannot divide into sentences, because it contains none, nor yet into words, it being but one nor into syllables, for it is upon the whole but one monosyllable: I must therefore, and necessity obliges me, divide into letters, which I find in my text to be four only, viz M, A, L, T. M, my beloved, is Moral; A is Allegorical; L is Literal; T is Theological The Moral is well set to teach you drunkards good manners; therefore, M, my Masters; A, All of you