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 Terre-Filius. N xxxv. r! re 53nI by which means they kept the poor laity, m great meafure, out of female affe:ions, and engroflM them to themIves. But we have long fincg ihaken off our yoke, nd mongft other bleffings, which we owe to the fvrmation, I flall always elleem it no fmall one, that we may now be as fmug and as fleck, and every way as well qualified to keep the ladies com- Fany, without going to the univerfity, as with my, I think it cannot he deny'd that we have much the atlvantage tf them nothing being more common than hear a i'mart lamfel re- primand a young �prig of!earning for his rudeneii thus i it is jnfl like your O x v OD manners. An Oxford fctiolar, in the mouths of molt wo- men of fenfe, is only another word for a wild, ill-brtd, aukward nimal; and whatever conquells they might formerly boait of the chief fayours the recei'e now are from their laundre es y. .'./]i and bedmakers, or from their daughters, who are the T o. s 'r s of the tmiverfity, and the only objeeq, of their gallantry. ^11 the conclarion, which I &fire to clraw from this paper, is, that our univerfi'ty froarts are not the fine gentlemen in the world. TER'

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