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 Janet Clinker's Oration.      21

caverns roar like Etna's mouth; children follow their gaming, and old ſinners their drolling about, nothing ſtopt but coal-carts and common carriers, the Sabbath laſts no longer than the ſermon, and the ſermon is meaſured by a little ſand in a glaſs; many, too many frequent the church, ſeemingly only to ſhow their antic dreſs, with heads of a monſtruous form, more ſurprizing than thoſe deſcribed by Ariſtotle, as for length exceeding that of an aſſes head, ears and all; and oh! How humbling would it be, to ſee their eads ftruck into fuch a hideous form, &c. They diſdain now to ride on pads as of ild, or to be hooled on a horſe's hurdies, but auſt be hurled behind the tail, ſafely feated a leathern conveniency, and there they fly vifty as in the chariot of Aminadab. They will not ſpeak the mother language their native country, but muſt have fou- yern oaths, refined like raw ſugar thro' the lills of curfing, finely poliſhed, and fairly ruck in the profane mint of London, into perfect form of flunkey language; even the try wild Arabs from the mountain-tops, who ive not yet got Engliſh to profane his Mas er's name, will cry, Cet, Cot; hateful it is hear them fwear, who cannot ſpeak. O! arrange alteration ſince the days of old! the downfal of Popery, and the Prelates' decay, when reformation was alive, and religion in waſte and faſhion; the people during the Sab- th, were all packed up in cloſets, and their