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298 and Words Butter No Parnips. 'Tis Interet that Governs the World; and the Rulers of it; Eccleiatical, as well as Civil; for it Works in All Degrees and Qualities of Men; and we have learnt by Experience, that the Pulpit may be made to have a Feeling in the Cae as well as the Bar. Money, in fine, is an Univeral Paport, and All Doors Fly Open to’t. It Anwers All Objections, Reolves All Scruples, and turns up what Religion Trump, it pleaes. In One Word, Quid Dabitis & Tradam? may be the Motto of Corrupt Nature. This Fable was Excellently well Moraliz’d by a Famous Councel of our Times. One gave him a Fee of Forty Broad Pieces: He took ’em, and Counted ’em (as a Man may Count Money after his Father they ay) Well, ays he, Here are Forty Pieces, Pugnabo FORTITER Make them Teu more and Pugnalo FIFTITER, In forma Pauperis is no good Lawyers Latin. Kin’red are no Wellcome Clients, where the Nearnes of the Relation gives them a kind of Title to have Advice Gratis, but where the Couin cannot Prevail, the Kid mutt.

Creeping Young Fellow that had Committed Matrimony with a Brisk Gameome Las, was o Alter'd upon't in a Few Days, that he was liker a Sceleton then a Living Man. He was Basking himelf One time in the Gleam of the Sun, and ome Huntmen pas'd by him upon the Chace of a Wolfe that led 'em That VVay. WVVhy how comes it (ays he) that you don’t Catch That Wolfe? They told him that he was too Nimble for 'em. VVell (ays he) If My VVife had the Ordering of him he’d Spoil his Footmanhhip.