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 �Terr,e-Filiu., N o '-x year, who has forfeited his fdlofi,,;pJ for male-be. haviGur. It happen'd unluckily, that i was eleqect at a time- when the northtrn feball!on was not quite extin.. guifl'.ed, ard when the pailions of all people were imqamed on one fide or the other 5 I was one of thole unfledg'd politicians, who thought my feif obliged, in this turbulent conjunure, to mike an oFen confeffion of my political faith; and to exert my (i:2; as confcience. forfooth, mifguided me, in the defenceof my King and Country. My zealupon this occ',ion wa tb firaug uon me, that w hiltt I continued at fchool, inflead if getting my leflisn. I us'd to hold fiequent ditutes with feterat of my difa%&cd �chool-fcllows, upon liberty and Fo?rty, and the prote.[tantfucciall which'! thought glo- rious topicks in thot days: I was alfo a great miter of the Flying-pofi, and read multitudes ofpam- l:hlets. which were publifhed on the whigifh lide by which means I became tb confidetable a dieu- taut, that I thought my �dfa march for any cobire in the kingdom. Warm with,this fanatical zeal, ! went to O.x/'ord; md to a co}!ege the molt remarkable in o,:fml for as vint=,t-a zeal on t contrary fide: this I was loon convinc'd ofi for I had not been there an hour, before King ys the Tl.id, the Duke of m y Lord Bolingbroke, M.r, and fev._q'ai other fuch-tike healths, together with co,[57on to tke ufurper, (men- tionin: hi, name) and a]iteedyrefioration to the right- ful t'eir. were propoffal in a laree comeam,, and lid.currently round the tab,e. When they came to my turn, I declined them, and deftred to be excus'd, alkdgin g, that as i was obliged in a O'rt time to ,b. jure the. Pretender in he molt roleran manner, I could not juttify drinking his health, (much lefs his I%qora- tion) nor the health of any of his rebellious. adhe.- tests i and therefore begg'd lcav. e in his room to drink

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