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 ——vocantur

Ergo in concilium proceres——

Atque utinam his potius tota illa dediet

Tempora evitia. Juv.

, February 22.

F all the umptuous Edifices which of late years have hot up in, and adorned the habitation of the mues, the new Printing-houe, commonly called Printing-houe, rikes me with particular pleaure and veneration: it is, I do aure my reader, a mot magnificent and tately pile of building, uitable to thoe great ends for which it was raied. This is the midwife in ordinary to Alma Mater, which delivers the profound genius's of the univerity of all thoe voluminous offsprings, to which the common wealth of letters is o much indebted and obliged.

Concerning the origination of this ueful fabrick, divers rumours are gone forth; ome ay, the money, which was appropriated for this end, being embezzel'd, it was carried on at the charge of the univerity treaury: others, that certain books were old for the fourth part of the prime cot, to defray this expence; which procedure was, I uppoe,