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Rh from Time to Time the fallen Satisfaction of yawning over thee Productions. If the Reaon hould afterwards be ought, why the greatet Genius's who have been incorporated into that Body have ometimes made the wort Speeches; I anwer, that 'tis wholly owing to a trong Propenion, the Gentlemen in Quetion had to hine, and to diplay a thread-bare, worn-out Subject in a new and uncommon Light. The Neceity of aying omething, the Perplexity of having nothing to ay, and a Deire of being witty, are three Circumtances which alone are capable of making even the greatet Writer ridiculous. Thee Gentlemen, not being able to trike out any new Thoughts, hunted after a new Play of Words, and deliver'd themelves without thinking at all; in like Manner as People who hould eem to chew with great Eagernes, and make as tho' they were eating, at the ame Time that they were jut tarv'd.