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 would have set me above all writers of the present age. And why not happy Tom Pun-sibi? did we not jump together like true wits? But, alas! thou art on the safest side of the bush; my credit being liable to the suspicion of the world, because you wrote before me. Ill-natured criticks, in spite of all my protestations, will condemn me, right or wrong, for a plagiary. Henceforward never write any thing of thy own; but pillage and trespass upon all that ever wrote before thee; search among dust and moths for things new to the learned. Farewell, Study; from this moment I abandon thee: for, wherever I can get a paragraph upon any subject whatsoever ready done to my hand, my head shall have no farther trouble than to see it fairly transcribed!" — And this method, I hope, will help me to swell out the Second Part of this work.

THE END OF THE FIRST PART.

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HE Second Part of this Work will be published, with all convenient expedition: to which will be added, A small Treatise of, , and ; together with the 's Diversion: The Art of making : The Antiquity of , proved from Adam's two Daughters, Calmana and Delbora, &c. &c. &c.