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( 2 ) None ſo deaf as thoſe who will not hear.

A true humourous Tale, and Prover exemplified in the following merr Story of Mr. James SPILLER, Comedian of facetious Memory.

AS the art of true humour is very difficult to attain, and very rarely met with, I ſhall preſent my readers, with the following quotation o that ſubject from the Spectator.-'Among all kinds of writings, there an none in which authors are more ap to miſcarry than in works of humour as there is none in which they ar more ambitious to excel. It is not a imagination that reems with monſters an head that is filled with extravagant conceptions, which is capable of filling the world with diverſions in thi nature; and yet, if we look into th productions of ſeveral writers, who ſe up for men of humour, what wild is regular fancies, what unnatural di