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 Hand the very next Sunday. The Great are deceived, if they imagine they have appropriated Ambition and Vanity to themelves. Thee noble Qualities flourih as notably in a Country Church, and Church-yard, as in the Drawing-Room, or in the Cloet. Schemes have indeed been laid in the Vetry, which would hardly digrace the Conclave. Here is a Minitry, and here is an Oppoition. Here are Plots and Circumventions, Parties and Factions, equal to thoe which are to be found in Courts.

Nor are the Women les practied in the highet Feminine Arts than their fair Superiors in Quality and Fortune. Here are Prudes and Coquettes. Here are Dreing and Ogling, Falhood, Envy, Malice, Scandal; in hort, every Thing which is common to the mot plendid Aembly, or politet Circle. Let thoe of high Life, therefore, no longer depie the Ignorance of their Inferiors; nor the Vulgar andy longer rail at the Vices of their Betters.

Molly had eated herelf ome time before he was known by her Neighbours; and a Whiper ran through the whole Congregation, ‘who is he?’ But when he was dicovered, uch neering, gigling, tittering, and laughing,