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 lucubrations. I will not here give an account o� what various turns of mortification and plealure I we.nt through upon this occafion but will only ac- quaint my reader with one pafge: going into a certain famous coffhe-hou not tr t,'om Temple- Bar, I law a chfter of' gentlemen talking together as loon as I got amongft them. one of them ask'd whether they had en the new paper, call'd T err,- Filius ? To which an eminent 0 x v o R r profeffor, who was prdnt, anfwer'd, that he had, and could ffure them, upon his aflronom/�al word and our, that there was nothing in it, but lies, and impudence, and �currility  0 x v o t r, laid he, is a learned and blaretie/3 fociety. What, fiid another gentleman, ate there no abu�es, Sir, no corru?tion, no frauds, no debauchery, no difloyalty, no perjury', nothing of this nature in Oxford? None, at all, re- plied the learned prolixflor. No, faid the gentleman again ? not in M E a ? o  college, Sir ? Hum ! why, indeed, quoth hk profefforip upon this, yes, really, I have heard of firange doings there. And ought nor, faid the gentleman, thoii: flrange doings to be correc"kd? Sir, fiid the profeffor, we have nothing to fay to Merton college; we don't look upon it any part of the univerlity  they are all rank
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