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 96 Terr, e-Filis. N �. I know it is .n bard thin to make any of my g wary readers balieve that Beaux can be .quarmfomci but I can affure them, upon the word and honour of an Engtifl autl:or, that five or ]ix years ago, rome twenty or thirty of theti Oxford froarts did ac"tually frighten tl, ree or four poor-fpiited foreigners, and kick a tresbyterian /a5o out o a coffee-houte. My e,r hends thef marts have another very fcurvy trick. Would they be content to be fopptfh and igno- rant thernteives, (which t;:ems to be their tolcliudy and ambition) I could fieely forgive them  but they cannot forbear laughing at every body, that obeys the flatutes, ancl differs from them i o (as my cor- ref?onded expreffes it, in the proper diale of the place) th:t does not cut as bola a bofh as they do. They have fi:iy, for the molt part, very good a5raoci but when they walk together in bodies, as tl,ey often do,) how impregnable are their forheads . They point at every foul they meet, laugh very loud, and whitper as loud as th hugh. iemme, Jack, there goe a prig' Let us blow the pulp/up. Upon which, they fhre him full in the rice, turn him from the wall he paffe; by, and let up an hoO.iaugb, which puts the plain, ravo o;'ice oat of countenance, and occa- lions great triumph amongtt there tarodry dq}e. y l toe $. There is, I coy. leO. one thing in which theafore- fiidgorvnme are very courtly and ell-br'ed; I meau lvaymg their deists' for you are not to fippote they wea. :il th!s rich drayery at their o'vn �ro?cr cos and ct:argcs i all teSx^xs in Oxvo a e no,'. kioblemei.-', and Gcntleme-co,n,o,,er:,, but cb, iefly tvno cannot at3od to be t-,u =ny !o:�than their me cers. taylor., J]2oe ma3er:, and periig-mal:er$ will tt�k with ekere; which, wow and en ia three or four years i after

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