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 are diffident of our own Abilities, let us here invite a uperior Power to our Aitance.

Ye Mues then, whoever ye are, who love to ing Battles, and principally though, who whileom didt recount the Slaughter in thoe Fields where Hudibras and Trulla fought, if thou were not tarved with thy Friend Butler, ait me on this great Occaion. All things are not in the Power of all.

As a vat Herd of Cows in a rich Farmer’s Yard, if, while they are milked, they hear their Calves at a Ditance, lamenting the Robbery which is then committing, roar and bellow: So roared forth the Somerethire Mob an Hallaloo, made up of almot as many Squawls, Screams, and other different Sounds, as there were Perons, or indeed Paions, among them: Some were inpired by Rage, others alarmed by Fear, and others had nothing in their Heads but the Love of Fun; but chiefly Envy, the Siter of Satan, and his contant Companion, ruhed among the Crowd, and blew up the Fury of the Women; who no ooner came up to Molly, than they pelted her with Dirt and Rubbih.