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 and anon when I am warm'd, I'gad you shall hear me call 'em Doctors, Captains, Horses and Horsemen in the very same Breath. You shall hear how I go on now,

Johns.For all, Mr. Bayes?

Bayes.Yes, They were all lost there, but some of 'em were thrown up again at the Leman-Lake: as a Catholick Queen sunk at Charing-Cross, and rose again at Queenhithe.

Here I put a Quære, Whether there were any Socinians before the Flood, which I'm not very well satisfied in? I have been lately apt to believe that the World was drown'd for that Heresy; which among Friends made me leave it.

Now to write something new and out of the way, to elevate and surprize, and all that, I fetch, you see this Quickning Fire from the Bottom of Bogs and Rivers.

Johns.Why, Faith, that's as ingenious a Contrivance as the Virtuoso's making a Burning-Glass of Ice.

Bayes.Why was there ever any such thing? Let me perish if ever I heard of it. The Fancy was sheer new to me; and I thought no Man had reconcil'd those Elements but my self. Well Gentlemen! Thus far I have followed Antiquity, and as Homer has numbred his Ships, so I have rang'd my Beasts. Here is my Boar and my Bear, and my Fox, and my Wolf, and the rest of 'em all