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 N o 'err,e-Filiu. 8:: compare him to neas, (in all other ref'pe&s like his Lordhip) nor apply that of Virgil, iz.iFtaque bello dextra, But this, adds he, is a eircumflance in his Lorcl- flip's fayour, and manifettly gives him the advan tage. How fo? Does the loftrig of an hand prove a 'iperiority either of courage or ccnduCt. Or did Virgil, by that expreon, mean to compliment .geas for aot being ounded a thing which may equally happen to the brave ocer, or the mo. arrant coward ? If the tingle article of Ioling. an arm or a leg gives a man the precedence of .eas, many a poor penhoner at Chela College. hath an equal right to it with his Lordip. In or(, either this wretched tranflator and bold' comptor with Dryden, did not under,and the common conSru&ion of h author; or, through a poverty of invention, was obliged to delbend to the meaneft of quibbles, to furni out a dull com- pliment to his noble patron. Another of the time growth he makes to the univerfity. An ontor of hi dignity reflgning bison, rice, and taking leave of his very pattent and rtial auditors, might, one flou!d think, have congratuia- lated them on the general harmony that reign'd among them, t}e apparent reformation of man- ne, aM va advancement of learning, which had (of late years efpecially ) fo evidently rai&d their univerfitgto a degree of reputation beyona that of all others.  Not a word on't. As if he had bee in pay to Come new in{urance-oce, as he waa formerly to the old play-houfe, he advilcs them to keep dabbling on in mortar, and in mo elegant latin gives you to know, that in Oxfo.'d there are very able mana, and undRanding Rene. tters.

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