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424 Affection and Repect.  the Famous Comical Poet was one of the Number, but in o Looe a Garb and Dres, and with o Unmanly a kind of March and Motion, that Demetrius had his Eye upon him preently, and call'd Aloud to know how uch an Effeminate Sot durt preume to Appear in his Preence. Somebody gave the Tyrant immediately a Whiper, and told him, Sir ays he, This is the Poet Menander that you your elf have been pleas'd to own o Great an Admiration and Eteem for. Demetrius recollects himelf, and changes his Humour in the very intant; calls Menander to him, and Treats him with all the Intances imaginable of a ingular Liking and Repect.

Here was a Council of Mechanicks call'd to Advie about the Fortifying of a City; A Bricklayer was for Walling it with Stone; a Carpenter was of Opinion, that Timber would be worth Forty on't: And after them, up tarts a Currier,