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 N xxx,. 'erre-Rilius. 3 by his fuperior$, at the expiration of which, and after the performance of a fe' ceremonit, he allowed to mount the fir round, upon which he muff continue three or ]ur years more and then he mounts another, and fo on, till he has reached the top of the laa'deri but he mutt remember, in mouting, to fhew the utmoff ref'p�Oe to thole abo.ve him; otherwife they will tread upon his fin- gets, kick him off the ladder, and not fuffer hin to mount again. Neither would I have the world 6elieve, from what I have laid, that all perfons, who have gained thisfv. mmit, are immediately endowed with a per- fe& tatte of learned fruit i for many men Irave na- turally fo vicious a palate, that tho' they make one particular apple the ttudy off thdr whole lives, they thall die without knowing half {o much of the matter as a fiuiterer's :pprentice at fiotks-madeet: otker, when they are got up into the tree, amidt plenty anti variety, are curſt with ſuch a wanton appetite, that they cannot be content without {ting of every fruit they tiei .whkh makes ;uch an hodge-podge in their lellies, that tho' they have eaten of every diOn, yet they can judge of none: othera Rick to one or two forts of fruit, but then they cram them down to that excefi, that the either fuffeit themfelves, or drop aficep, and tumbl{ down from the tree. I will conclude with obtYerving, that |t is pity ſuch a glorious tree fhould ever come to decay at leatt as long as the art of man-can preferve it and yet it is at prent, by the mifmanagement and .negle& of the perfons appointed to look aer xn a very declining and ruinous condition: it is to be hoped therefore, fince it is of ſuch infinite let- vice-to the nation, that the Kt u  or the !:', L ! A M E N T will interpole in this mattea', and fend, own proper perfons, who underlhnd tree, to e- C jr vie,,,,,

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