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A true humourous Tale, and Proverb exemplified in the following merry Story of Mr., Co- median of facetious Memory.

S the art of true humour is very difficult to attain, and very rare- ly met with, I ſhall preſent my read- ers with the following quotation on that ſubject from the Spectator.—‘A- mong all kinds of writings, there are none in which authors are more apt to miſcarry than in works of humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel. It is not an imagination that teems with monſters; an head that is filled with extravagant conceptions, which is capable of fill- ing the world with diverſions in this nature; and yet, if we look into the productions of ſeveral writers, who ſet up tor men of humour, what wild ir- regular fancies, what unnatural dif-