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SQUIRE PEDANT.

39 no longer your ingenerate malign propensions; – enter upon theopathy, and abnegate your mundanity, and you can yet have a pregustation of a better existence.

Soon your psychomachy will terminate, and your foy be transmuted into fruition. Evitate all alamodality and recidivation; and for this end indagate the hagiography with incessancy, in relation to the verity of these announcements. Secern yourselves from all ludibrious rabbles and seek supersecular treasures – have your cressets flagrant, and evitate invigilance.

“But O! ye faitours, rakehells, rampallions, wassailers, jillflirts and demireps! what hortation shall I impart to you. You all lie under the divine execration, and your subastral existence is truly temporaneous. Divest yourselves of your imbonity, incogitancy, and malversation; bonity is impetrable; perpend your longinquity from eupathy, and the inenarrable sequences of your impreparation for the apropinquating catastrophe. O! ye petit-maitres, conculcate the fulgid ornature of your persons, and suppress your nugacities and stultiloquy, and ye kickshoes, cease your tripudiations; and ye wassailers elide your costrels and denegate yourselves of your vinolency; and ye clinquant jillflirts, abject your elamping and bombycinous habiliments, and your bijous, and cease from your irrational calamistrations; and O! ye hunkses, ye terrigenous sept, desist from your supervacaneous toil and disquietudes – accede ye all into the stramineous department paravant the rostrum — incurvate your poplitics, or perform genuflection, and obsecrate that you may impetrate a purgation from all your nefandous piacles. If you refuse to come, you will be in periclitation to suffer relegation to the inframundane regions, where your quiritations will be frustraneous, and interminable remordency will excruciate you!"

At this juncture, the influx into the paleous depart-