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 cll'd for defrauding the college, with a pious intent to enrteh it, It they would ban,. tip hs pO:ure, as he deftred, in their hall, and pray for him amongit their other benefaO:ors. T. hus in all gret faroilks, as well as in the antl other colleges, there ever were, and ever will fuch infolent flares kept to domineer over th ' matters clients. and levee-men, and �ometimes over their mailers themfdves. When SIjat/s, that courtly villain, whom we read of in Tacitus, was in his profperity, it. was e/teemed a very great honour to be actuainted with his door-keepers, and meniaI-t:rvants. Etiam 8a- trium atelue Pomponlure venerab4mur: libertis etuo. atte ac janttonbm elm notej}ere pro magnifi'co accipie.. btur *. There Ox[ord jotmea agree with the S'outb-j$a. uuledings exa&ly in this, mat they grow rich fur prifingly falter than other peoples firrants. I have too much re�pe& for the chief characters of all ages and all countries, to call any unfeemly refleXohs upon the dunghiI, from whence they hoe fpmng5 and I often wonder at the f'olly of' many men, who would be thought wits, when hear them �comf'ully call a rifing great man an up. firt, a mujhroom, and a thing of y. efierday, as mat- ter of dffgracei whea 'tis plain, fi:om experience, that we gentlemen of the mob have_ .always been the ableit perions at the helm of' ars; which is fuch an honour to our illuftrious obfcurity, as I can- not help being very proud of. It is a finruling maxim in gilding, th. at a fuperttr.utture cannot be fupported wthout a f0undauom Book 9'ery.

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