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 reverend the heads and governours of colleges and halls) they winc'd like o many gall'd hores, and aid to one another, Gentlemen, thee are no jets; if we uffer this, we hall become the port of frehmen and ervitors; let us expel him, for an example to others not to take uch freedoms with their uperiors.

And Terræ-Filius was accordingly expell'd almot every act. Yet, for all that, ome body was till found upon thee occaions, endow'd with chritian courage enough to rebuke wickednes in high places, at the expence of infamy and nakednes; the uual conequences of incurring eccleiatical dipleaure!

To put therefore an entire top to this dangerous practice, of expoing the Dons to deriion and detetation, it hath been though expedient, for the afety of their reputations, to have no publick act at all for ome years; and when they have, to have no Terræ-Filius: by this means obliging me to ilence when there is mot occaion for me to open my mouth.

Being of a very talkative temper, and withal omething plenatick, you mut needs think, loving readers, how uneay this confinement has been to me: to ee ignorance, upertition, tyranny and prietcraft riding rampant in the eminaries of religion; to ee barefaced, fraudulent actions daily committed by the hands that ought to adminiter jutice; to ee perjury and rebellion publickly preached and inculcated into the minds of youth; to ee the virtuous munificence of founders and benefactors quandered away at gaming-tables, and amongt tockjobbers, or guzzled down in hogheads of wine or tot up in fricaees and venion paties: I ay to ee all this, and to ee no publick remedy apply'd or propos'd to be apply'd to this complication of evils, would extort atire and indignation from the mot lukewarm breat.