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Royal remarks; or, the Indian Kings observations on the most fashionable follies now reigning in the kingdom of Great-Britain. London, [1710?]. 57 pp. General Reference .

Title Royal remarks; or, the Indian Kings observations on themost fashionable follies now reigning in the kingdom of Great-Britain.

Imprint London : printed for and sold by the booksellers, [1710?].

Language English

Pages 57

ESTC Number T052969

18th Century Microfilm Reel # 634

Physical Descript ion [4],55,[1]p. : ill. ; 8

Source Library British Library

ECCO Subject Area General Reference

ECCO Release Date 12/01/2003

Holding Lib raries

Source Citation Full Citation for Royal remarks; or, the Indian Kingsobservations on the most fashionable follies now reigning inthe kingdom of Great-Britain. London, [1710?]. Based oninformation from English Short Title Catalogue . Eighteenth

Century Collections Online . Gale Group.http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Gale Document Number CW124566942

2008 by Thomson Gale. O SO N

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o y l emarks.

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Indian King s Obfervations-,On the moll

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F a f h i o n a b l e F o l l i e s :

Now reigning in the

Kingdom of reat r i t i n ~-

The Upboljlel er:finding my Friend very illqlli i-t v al ont there h i ~ LiJdgers brought him aBundle c.f Papers which he affur d him werewrittC? by Ring OJlka; and as he fuppos d,

left behind by [l me Nliftake.There apm are now tranflated and contain ahundance of very odd Ob ervatiol1s; which Innd this little Fraternity of Kings made du-ring their Stay in the IJIe of Great-Britain.

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HEN the I di -Kil g and Chiefs were - in this Kingdom

I often mixed with the Rabble_ and followed them a whole Day together being wonderfully firuck with the

Sight of every Thing that is New or Uncommon.-

I bave finee their Departure employ d a FriC d to make many Enquiries of theirLa zdlord the Upholperer relating to t ~Manners and Converfation asalto concern-ing the Remarks which they made in this

Cozmtry: For next to the fonning a right. Notion of fuch Strangers I fuould be de-_ {irous of learning what Ideas they conceiv d of us.

, The Upholflertr finding my Friend very illqztijitive about there his Lodgers brought

him a JU zdle of Papers which he aff ur d_ him were writtcll by King OZtka j and as

: he fUFPos d left behind y fome Millake. There-

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fleries, and Derivation of all Deri\ratiol1s, for

thefpeedy refolving all Cramboes, rootingthemeaning from their mofi obfcure Caverns; andmaking their Ratio of this, that and t otherclear as the Sun at l -Ioon-day, provided the VTeather was not cloudy.

T H Difadvantages E t J 2 l ~ ~ y lahoursunder,: feem to be owingfirfl to the lengthof Time it has been us d, and ought to be

thrown a\ \ ay for that Reafon, tho never fogood: Secondly the prevailing Party ofTroopees cry out, That tis a Shame any hard \lords eontriv d by your naay filthy old l ~lows, who cames fiinking out of the Ark,ibould be mingled in this OtW fo mucb i m ~proved Age with their fublime 1lew fa 2g ed hra/es more nicely adapted foradrelftng theLadies being of a fofter Nature, and tender,like the Heads and Hearts of their lovingOrators. And Third6 aItho the Grcecimz rhave been accounted a wife and gravePeople; yet no Part of their DialeCt can be

thought entertaining, to a Sett whofe Headsare turned more to their own fingular Plea-fures, than to make Camels of themfclves,and bear fueh beafl:1y Loads of Thol1ght forthe good of the Public. And as neither tymolofJ or any other \Vords having theirDerivation from that wife People, are at ore-fent either regarded or underfiood, u y

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a few good for nothing VV'retches (as outModems call them: There ought to be ageneral Regulation, and no Words admittedbut thofe of a more foothing Accent, fuch asZozmds Dam-ye R o t ~ y e c. and fnchlike; neverthelefs, cannot help thinking,that the \Vords' Etymology Alomzts andmany others of their kind, (tho' difiiked byfome Perfons,) are very good Vlords : And do verily believe were they fet to Italian

Airs, compofed by Seigr. . . amifung in Rccitavio by a feleCt Number ofForeiglzers their Harfimefs would becomefmooth and fonorous enough, to ravHh a polite Part of Mankina, who fcem to havevery little Efieem, any, for the Signifita; .tion of'Vords, Such Perfons being geBeral-ly found condemning of many for 'havin'gtoo much m e a n i ~ gand preferring thefe

which have itz thei:1 S J[e mcal1il1f atall. The latter being maR: agreable totheir own Parts of Speech, which is prettyevident, e f p e ~ i a l ywhen they make P r o ~~ i f e s either F i Y f t ~to pay their jufi D e b r ~or Secoudly in their ,Prologues to lOve Affairs;or hirdly w h ~ nthey have faid any thin.gtending to the Relief of .their necefl1tous Pe,.titioners, who nng, daily at their Levy to

fame difmal Tune, The following Words, good my Lord what d'y call - 'em,pear my Lord, or Pray y Lord; to which

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they add a mofi-difcreet Chorus wherein is

blundered out that charming Word Nete -Jity which Bt\rden cannot fail fuiting myLord ti a Hair being a Word entirely voi lef Signification to his 7Jo1zfhip and therefore the more liked And his HOilour to haeven with thm takes particular Care t h a ~Tuchhis Suppliantsmaynot b e . p r e v e n ~ e dlofing.their Time; nor the Opportunity of tepeatinit to him and all the Town often .arfas long llS Time Md . ~ t i e l 1 c eWillpermit them. During which Applicationmy Lord tofhow his AftabHity a n f w e r s t h ~ lwith an ul1conrern d Air in their rav hing

DialeCt of Dear Madam fuch a One goodMr. ; F h a t ~ a y - t a t l - c r J Zand Dear ack Ibeg you ll makeno more Vords praymakeno \Vords Lord, Lord, what jig1zifvlflords,

whichI

think is no fmall firoke on the P-errycra7zium of Etym M'.

fuot trich Men will hot take Til11tto give theMfetves the Troableof diving ioto the EtyfJt f .Y of fnch Words as promif:cd tbpo1zmy-Ho12oitr and had they Timefrom their Pieafures their Policy is muchtbe commeilded. For if the Stubborn

School-Boy had fo much Wit as not toread any farther in his Horn-hook thangreat A kil0wi11g if Ire read B that hisMaller would make him read all the other

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7Sorl ow) find its EffeCts great deal worfethal1 they imagin d. There is aiways great deal of Ceremony paid to tJ Pri mife

great deal of MOIl ey f p e n ~in a t ~ e n d l n git great deal of Vmuous EducatIOn facri Seed to it, and in the End, great deal

of Time loft y honefi Men, who could)but for the hindrance of. a Promiie, h vemuch better employ d their Hours, tho inthe meanefl: State: In witllc[s whereof (asFriend 1JlzmderbztfSonce faid) pray call: your:Eyes upon the many Ladles to whom fnch1 jOllS have fwore beyond the Invention ofOaths and P r o n ~ i e s ,you ll fee them all ruin d and loft for ever j the Tradefmen who

had the Honour to give their J oujhips Credit you ll find become Bankrupts; and evencnear Jack, who had the l?leafure of dangling a long time after his Honour, tho but foran Excife-Man s Place, has exhaufied hisfplendid Shilling, and now cries Japan yoztrShoesyour HOlloztrin the P i a z z a , C o ~ e 1 Z t -d lZIn which human and moll noble Vay ofdifappointing and ruining their Fellow-Crea

tures, they not oniy feem to glory, but dailyfet an Example to all Mankind to followthe Paths of:the:r Betters (as they call thernfelves) fo that in Time if Providence don tU l ~ I u c ~ i l yhil1der the Growth of fll h excel:lent P r i n c i p l e ~ ,there will neither be Etymo-logy nor any other Word left to 1ignifie. farthing. . . ~ L f \ ~


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u .. . Poor Etymology .... g Menream already to ~ deny cl the Privilege oftheir own Words which \Vords they h ~ vboth bought and paid for at School nay;and enjoytd the Poffeffionof for many Years. TIs too plain our Words are abus cl by thebufyand guilty Men of the Age who inCoifee oufes turn winde and mifconftruethf;ni from our innocent Meaning accordingto their fevera l Occauons eIfe howcame it

that the \Vords Leviatha11, Cardhlal Wool v ~ and that plaguing one bZUC1tdo?weretaken fo much amifs ? For fm fure Lc Z ia-tba1t is in the RO lJclatio1Zs,Cardinal 111 1-fey in l1aker s Chronicle and I t ~ t l d oin a.ll

the beft Ditl:ionaries extant And yet wefind thore bufy Wretches thore Mom1ts softhe Times were difgufied at them Words;but I think they were as well rewarded fortheir Infolence in throwing their Javelinsnnd fuooting their Arrows at Great Man;they have found to their Coil that aiming at :RonNel/or, is like fhooting at the Lcvia-tba J whole Scales are impregnable theynot having any thing for their Labour hut aReturn of their Fools Bolts which have jun- y rebounded againfttheir awn Breafts; and tis jUdg d as the Proverb fays That they~ ~ n w c r b ~ c ~ f d f t r ~ c ~ QfMi{c.hiujhz the O lJC1ZofSca11dal,had theyIte - crhem tbere them[elocs. Sue H

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chants, Trade/mm) G e 1 2 t l ~ : l l e J Zand fuchl i ~

e, who according to fome People , Opi nion, that one would think uld know, aredeem d a Sett of meer Trafh a low Degreeof working Fellows; a courfe Earthen-Warefort of Men who in the way of Cal1tab.

PZt1t love Meaning, becaufe their Fortunes arc metl?1 their Wealth being licentiou{lyexpended in ilthy Induftry for the Benefit of

others; a fort of Scrubs who enjoy H0120Ztrwithout n Efiate, and are Noblemen without a Title in fllOrt, they are a fort ofWretches who for their Poverty are out ofFafhion at prefent to converfe with. ButTimotby lFrollgbcad, Efq; who too often

thinks his Judgment better than any other s,and being a great Lover of Etymology, wasendeavouring prove there is a great Difference between what forr.e Folks call Per-{o of ,f JtalitJ ~ JVOble 12al1 affirming

that the latter, tho never- fo poor, are thebeft Clafs of People in the Univerfe, andgave me the following Opinion of his Familyin few Word upon t They fay every Nobleman is a Perfon of Quality in Equity,whereas every er{o1t of ,Qjtality cannot bemade a Noblemmt the Law of Nature having put in fa many Caveats and Bars againil: it in the begetting of them. To which

they added, endeavouringto provea

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Zby the Vords Nobleman and Per/Ons of2Jea l ty as I made him confers after his Haranguewas ended; for he very Frmzkly told me,that he neither knew nor meant any thing

by either of the Words, and only bang dthem and other Words to and fro for hisPleafure, as School-Boys do their Shuttle..cocks.

a farther Specimen of him, I fuallgive you not only fame more of his oddNotions, but thore likewife of his Confede..rates according to an excellent old Similethat many have calI d their own, Match ontt ~ eotherlike l ~ e r sTallies

i s Timothy lfronghead Efq; withmy Neighbour 1Joflor Pztzzlepate and hisintimate rony and Counfellor, Will Blun..Jerhztfr of AddlC ],211,Efq; are all fo fiupidlyfOlldof diving into the Nature of triteMeani12g,~ s they call it that I have neveryet mifs d .finding them c10fely afiembled inTripple Alliance at Sir Martin Marr-all sgreat Pl1blick Houfe near Craek Brain Alleythe Back-fide of 1Jetblem-Hofpital other

wife call d Bedlam: At which Place Iliadat ir no fmall Diverfion in being now~ t h ~ l admitted They :were frequent..

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1y Hand to FiD: contriving, drawing upSchemes, forming of Treaties, or propofingof Articles for the maintaining of Etymologyaccording to its original.State, and ereCtingof Barriers for the Defence of it, againft itsdreaded and mofr potent Enemies, thoreI.egiC ns of Toopees, and Gad-dem-ye-Sirs,which fort of People the take to be verydangerous Fellows: An poor Tflrollghead,with the relt, not enjoying a Stock of newfajhio7z d Lear11illg fufl1cienteitber to underHand or engage them, were all like to havebeen righted out of their Wits about it yet had they loft the little Wit they p o { ~ sd,. can t but fay it would have prov d the fafeD:Shelter they could have pitch d upon, tohide them from their Enemy s Search; for I m

perfwaded the Gad-dem-ye-Sirs efpecially,would never have been able to have difiinguifh d em from their own Party, in thatDifgnife, nor could their Speech betray d

them as Enemies to the Toopees being with 'out Vit. In t1lOrt, thefe 'Squiresand the:Doctor don t like nor underLl:and their Enemy s Contrivance of the fllm d Powder and

JJalls for a Philofophical Battle

they don tapprove of Jokes; they faid it look d as ifthey were thought Fools, and had neverfecn a Battle by ,vay of Argument in goodearncfi: Upon which, fRIl. lt7zderbzt{s-recollecting, produced that \vorthy Piece,

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the Battle of the Books as a Prefident whichfet rhem all to RIghb; and having fo gooda Proof they immediately prick d rhat Bookoown as one of [heir principal Forts.

O Night I found them very near quar-relling endeavouring to decide whether -hraltar was of the fame Derivation withGiblitol e or Giblitore fynonymons with

Gibraltar: Or further ftlppofing that Gi-hraltar and Giblitore were two diftelentPlaces whether they lay contiguous to eachother or not; and where they or either ofthem were fitnated lying or being; orwhether there was or were not y fuchPlace or Places: All which they moll: learn-.cdly argued upon for fame time till theyconcluded with this weighty Opinion That

if either of thofe Names fignified any Placeor two Places provided its or their Wallswere fo hard as either of their joint or fepa-rate Names feem d to them that then andin ihch Cafe it was their joint and feparateOpinions and thong Belief that fueh Place Pl ccs neither would or could ever betaken; or if either it or they fhould orcould ever be taken or took it did not fig-

llifie one Farthing to them or either ofthem: For whereas fuch Place or Placesfeem d fitnated far off and as they nor either of them had ever feen either one the

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tort of People, who generally keep St. MOiZ-l

day, and fometimes St. Tzte[day, Fedne/d y ~Thztr[day, and St. Friday, Holy, asDays of Contrition and Pennance for theirhaving debauch d the foregoing Szt11day.But this I muft fay for em, They labourvery hard the remaining Part of the \Veekto make good their lofs of Time, and tomaintain their Families. There is alfo theWord Craft, or Craft[mm2, as commonly

accepted, for Boats, Lighters, a12dJ3argesZ6p 2the River, all which are call d Craft,and their Owners Craft/mm: But chieflythis old Word Craft/man feems to have itsDerivation, and moil: to be eil:eem l fromthe moil: ancient and celebrated Brotherhoodof ArtJ ttd Scimces, the Free Mafo12s. Squire lflr01zghead who feem. d pleafedwith a Defcription he had not heard before;

and being fet right, it encouraged him toproceed in his ufual bright Way, upon thenew Word, which, he faid, had notwithfianding, fame Affinity with the old One, ashe found by what the Vof1or had mention-ed : For that altho he did not r e ~ l l yintendthat either Shoemakers, Owners of Craft,or Free Mafl12s)fuould have had any Sharein the Qle1Hon, as he hill put it, yet he ne-

verthelefs, allow d that his Meaning was toexamine into the Nature of fuch a {)1 a t ma11,who, ilZhis Opi1Ziol1,kl1CWas welt where

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( 7:Mc Shoe pi12ch d his Cozt1trrmel/s Feet, amzJ Crifpin of them atl. Likewife could

find where the Secret ,Treafure lay belong-inO to a wreck'd Ve/Tel, eqnal to the beG:?Jiver ati ng the JJlater Tribe) and lall:.:. Iy whofe political Wifdom could as

, faithfully keep a Secret that did not tend, to the Prejudice of J3C t 'Pttb, as any Freelt1a(011of undoubted Integrity: For, added

the 'Squire, the Craft{mau I mean is as I

take it according to Gme gy, withoutbed

ing in the leaO: beholding to the Flattery ofHerald for a Pedigree a ldml lineally

defte1Zdedfrom a C U 1 Z 1 2 i 7 2 g ~ m a J 2 ,which CZt1t-11iuK-mmlwas the S 3 ofa t li e Mml, which

lfli{cMan was the Son of a C071jurer,which Conjurer muO:certainly have been the SOlI of{omebodywho knew the Vevil a71dall. But

you know the }dagic there is in fame C07ij'lt

. riug I'mlds, when you are once draw7zwithin their Circles. lrl'l 111-73ztdpct'sthe u Word of Commmzd; and then what fignifies

, the Signification of any thing one could fay, or do when too often we find that our own

, V ords choak us as foon for l::cing pent in7as fat their being utter d improperly or contrary to the 11eW Rules of eridei/m.

fflill 13lzmderbzt[shearing what dangerous

Confequences inight attend parapbraji12g~ p o the ford C1 aft{mml1 and neither he~ S t j u i r c I i m o t h ynor the 'Doffor, being o

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rcr-bllrdell d with Knowledge fufficient to

make out clearly what a Craft/mall wasor who he l as j Tflill \Vas very near proving VifJe1iter j for he urg d that flords without Meani1lg began in his Opinion toappear the ttfeft and mort fafhio71able amo12gthe Jlljfeaeres il2 Ejfeem; and he did ~know but he might greatly mend his Cir-cmnHances by taking C0120enticleto himfelf where he ihould have nothing further

to do than to choofe llztrlothrwllbo for hisText the firfl DO) , Chimes of the Timesthe remaining Part of the \Veek . and collect ellce {Y)/thMl,tN lt1J2ber: \Vhich .i\ Iotion fet Squire lPro1J. headand the Do far immediately upon his blClz calling him meree-12my, 11ew-fajhioll -d Fellow, raving likeMadmen left they fll ld lofe fo excellent aConfederate in their purpdfcd Alliance for

the Support of Etymolof]. But ina

fmallTime their Fears were removed j for TflillJ3lzmderbzt{s,whofe Fire of Pa[{;Ql onlyflaG1 d in t.be Pan did no further. Mifchiefthan create a little Smoak infignificant as hiff of Tobacco, whiCh foan vanifiledand all were re-united; concluding that theyknew no more of the J I ~ j r dC1 tljl ma12,thanthat they believ d it meant a very eZt1211illgbJmz; and that if it was fo they fhouldbe very glad to enjoy fuch a One s Opinionef an ~ a i rthat once h a p p e ~ dto l ~~ r h r e ~

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of them; which Story. I had the aVOllf

ofhearing related by themielves the ne:{t Nightto whIch they adjourn d.

H E next 1 - ~ j g h taccording to p p o n t ~

ment, I did my fd f the Honour of meeting cm; and altho at the beginning of the Dd:courfe they confef:/d that neither of themcould make any thing of what they were

going to relate, yet I propofed to my felf nofmall Pleafure in hearing what odd Notionsfame People entertain of Things for want ofa right Knowledge.

T H y were fome time in deciding v rhofilOuld be the Speaker; but Squire {Pronghead at lafr was appointed to hold Forth;as having the befr Memory; and the VoCior

with Squire Blzmderbz/{s were agreed tofit during the Aff:1ir as two of the Cri ticksJury did upon the Body of Dir;, i Je Shake-fpear, lately n z t r d e r ~ dagai12 great Poetto the inexpreulble Grief and Lofs of hIS F ~ e - :l1tars the Boolfellers who generally takePoffeffion of Men s Souls, binding them noin Calves-Skin Cofl 1ns, before either theirBodies care to part \ i ith them) or Nature

has the Time to take away their old Clo:lths,which {he has a Right to according to her{ Wl1 Law.

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A length the Sqztirc .open d, with theAfpeCt of a Stuck Pig, and in the following4vIanper gave me an Account of the u n c ~countable Accident that bad befallen thisw o n d e r f ~ , l

Trinnwirate.I happened one Afternoon, faid, the

~ 8 q u i r e ,we Ibrec taking a ferious Walk together, willing to club each of us our Two

pence in the \Vay, unfortunately dropp d in to a damn d Coffee-Boufen e a r 2 r t t r y - L mthe Reputation of which we were i n ~ o c e n to where, to our great Surprize, we f o u n ~our felves furrounded with a Sett of our profefs d Enemies, the Gad-dem-ye-Sirs, whoreBrains rattled in their Sculls like their i c ~ in the Boxes they we at play with: 8e lJC1t orElc lJc t prefently ftarted up in our Mindsand we too roan found wc had ,zick d t

for in an Infiant they arofe, Gael demy eSirs,faid one, ~ dem ye Sirs raid a , r i o t ~ e r , l1zdfo 12 tbro the wbole Compmty; that 10 aMinute we were under too {hong a Guardfor any polllbility of making a Retreat: Ve.were immediatdy Chrifh;:n d according totheir Religious Opinions, which don t a lit:Ple vary from, Chriftianity. Sqpire 11lizmder lm(s they raId was a Caccaf(;go; DoCt.orPztzz epatc they oblig d with the Nam.e of l Old P ~ ~ t ~ nd my 1elf they mu h honour

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cd with the Stile a.ndTitle of t Old P r i g g ~That w were all old Fellows, We readilyconfefs. d i but we humbly defir d, as theyhad fuewn us the fingular.and unneceiIaryFriendi11ip of ftan,ding Godfathersunask l to

three fuchPiecesof Antiquity,thattheywou dadd fo far to the Favour a l r e ~ d yreceiv da to give u ~the BlefIing of our Liberty to4epart thofe Premifes: To which P ~ t i t i o nthey Ol)e a.ndall roar d out, (lond as a Bellcaft the Sizeot St. Paul s Cupulo with the,:Mol1m;p.entfor its Clapper,. Gad dem ye:~ i r s you re our Pdfoners, .... l Gad demy eSirs we ll v ~fome Fun with ~ a- -And ay that they, wou d, Gad demyeSirsMoft patiently we endur d: being taken into~ h e i rC ~ l f i o d yand according to the Orderof their Committee w were foon hurried

away to

Mctamorphoji1lgHoze[ein theHay-Market; where, after having been forfame Time made the Sport of another Gangbelonging to the fume Legion, join d with ar>arty of Toopeesthey uncas d us, and bound;Skins round a ur Bodies each of a d i f t e r e n ~Specie of Brutality i which done, they ufh er d us to a large Place adjacent where theytum d us loofe out of our Knowledge, ~ -

mong Herd of flieroggiphicat J ] e a f l s ~tofilift for our felves, till the Fodder which.that Field. afforded, was demolHhe.cl.. Wkept as near to each other as poIIible r

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)folving to muaer up what little Rearon wehad remaining in this our F ~ i g h tand e l l d e avour to be contented with reReCting betweenour felves on the Vifion that ieem to be fetbefore us, a nd of which, to our AfHib:ions,we bore fome Part Vc found our felves as1nOl1jlrous,as much flar d at hmlter d andas little know? as the reft, which was fame

Comfort in our Misfortunes; we heard no-thing of great Confequencefaid among them,unlefs it was, Do ~ o u lto me? which e-very onebark. d out in the Tone of a Lady s

little Lap-Vog ; and tho many attack dus with that /itblime P hra[C, yet we remain-ed ftedfafrly MZt111 which, I don t doubt,made I1.S frigmatiz d for fittpid Creatztres. Iown every thing was fo far beyond our Ca-pacity of judging, that we could never fomuch as account for the Meaning of any Part.Neverthelefs, the Notions we entertain dwere many; for we conjeCtur d our felves forfame Time no otherways than in a (I 1-allce.On one fide of the Place feeing Number ofPyramids adorn d with Hieroglyphical Figlwes we verily thought our {elves in ./E

gJPt where either we mufi have been Kidnapp d or C071jztr d fame CZt1Zlli11g ~ M a 7or other, out of a Frolick. The cnroves ofpai12teet:Bodies which ftalk d 11S cameup to us, and danc d round us, j n c r e a ~ dourpariick Dread, we imagining dircdly for I

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can t fay but they put us mightily in Mind ofthe (ii [dlmfs of Silz) that, perhaps.tor fameof our old Crimes, the Conjurer had railedthe .lEgJlptiau lvlmml1ies from their peaceful},l(Jjdezl11zs, give us not only Reproof, butChafdi meot; tl d that the Ceremony was

to perform d by Death wrapp d up in Swathing, otherways call d Swadling Cloaths 1]ztt ale were Hill mifiaken; for they p r o v ~ drather a Number of 1ir: :illf zm[o lwdCrcafttr S than Corpfes fo well preferv d as the.7'dummiesare. DoCtor PZlzzlepate had another Notion in the Hieroglyphical \VayThat the Pyramids, and other Matters\vhich feem d to lie in great Order upon the

Platform which the Pyramids fiood 011; feem dto him Emblematical Figztre of the go tThings fet upon the Altar J Baal, as a Sa-crifice to him; and that the Number ofGor-malzdj/ers who came about it, taking allbefore them, were as a 'Ijpe of the Prieflsin thore Times \\ ho devour d, or took tothemfelvcs fuch Gifts as were defign d bothfor their Gds ( 1ld their Cozmtr.y. Afterwhich Squire J31mzdel'bztfs reflected on usboth, faying) That as Matters in his Judg-ment feem d tl1rn d f o p f y ~ t l V Yin the newWorld and all things appearing to Vt1rY fo

much in their Nature, it was impoffible foreither of us who were educutcd in the ailci-tut plrlin Ztt JI to make a good and approv\l_

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onftru t on of any moder1Z l l e r ~ g b p h i

which he took that Viji01Zto reprefent : Andupon the whole, we agreed that neither ofus knew any thing of the Matter. In filO rt,when the whole Crop feem d eaten off theGround, one ,of the Gad-qcm-ye-Sirs meup to us, pull d off his Hack1zcy{ec01zd-ha1iitCountcna1zcc,and commanded us to followhim, whrch we no fooner heard t h n o b e yWe were clapp d under a frefii Guard, com

pofed of himfelf and half a Dozen ~ D p ~ e swho carried us back to theflrippbzg Room,re-equipp d us with the inherited Apparel ofour Grandfathers, made us drink t orthree Very odd Healtbs, and at laft tum d usout under a tripple Difcharge of Gad demyeSirs; concluding with the folloWingmoltobliging Speech of, Take YOZtr Liberties,imd mayye all Three be trebly dem d, Gaelitemye Sirs.

T S Sir, faitl thefpeaki1zg Sqtdre w ~ sthe unexpeCted Ceremony of our Difitiiffion;and as foon as we had recovered Faithenough to ,believe we were at Liberty, andRea on fuflicient to ask a plain Queftiol1, webeggld a Chairma?l as he callld hitnfelf) totell us where we were; who not odly verycivily informedus, but with HZt111a1zity whichWe had not met with ~ o n gall the Societywe had got locife.from,) freely offered, feing

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us Strangers, to be our Guides wherever ~ T epleafed go: faying f ~ r t h e rin a pityingTone, Ah Mafiers you ve been among fad Crew of TJevils. But t h ~ Dire'ctionswhich the honeil Fellow gave us, being plainas our Queilion and Purpofe required, w ~thank'd him to the Value ofa Shilling y wayof Encouragement, and trudg'd Home, wherywe arrived in Safety, to our great Comfort,about the Hour of Six the Morning following: The Afternoon we fet out: which, a s

far -as Memory will admit of) is, to the'b e { ~

of my Knowledge, every minute j r c u ~ -fiance of the whole Affair: And thus endedthe wonderful' Story of this molt learned'Squire liJlr01zghead,and his as wife Compa

nions the 1Jofforand J;{/ill Blztl2derhu{s.T y were very olicitoZlS t h ~ tI Wo

give them my Opinion upon the W h o l ~an4begg'd me to fpeak freely, for they were if-f u r ~that fo long a Story mllfi fignifie fame'thil1p and t h a ~ifmufi hav e fon1e Meaningmore ~ h a norqlqary, becaufe it had puzzledthem for fo long a Time. aJJur d them, itfcem'd to me fo far ~ b o v emy C a r a c i t y ~that

unlefs it was a joint Dream compofed of theirunited Head-pieces to puzzle me I c:6uldmake nothing of it; hzt11zblyl cque.fli1Zgthey'd'excuFe mr Backward?efs in arguing llpon t nAffair WhIChI dec1ar d had no:other:Appear.. D nce


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ance to me, than that they all feem d to havebeen terribly frightned at fomething or other,which Myfiery they themfelves feem cl not Ivery capable, at that Juncture.,. to unravel INeverthelefs, I acknowledg d the fingular :Pleafure and vafi Diverfion which I told them:~ h e yhad given me in the Defcription which :Sqmre 1f ro12gheadhad fo eloquently fet:forth. This Speech,which my wretched Ignorance had contriv d, very foon demonftra..

ted what a grand MiO:ake I had made,; 1too[o01Z foztlzd my felf as perfeCtly wrong, as ,I d befme thought them; for they began prefently to make, nle fenfible of their Refent- ment, and dubb d me N01J Com.which they plainly fl1ew d by Frowns dreadful as theclouded Heavens, that forebodes a Storm;,they bit their Lips, lar d at one the other, and (to confirm me in what I dreaded) threw

their Tobacco-Pipes like Thmzder-7Jolttfrom Jove.

DoCtor P lJzzlepatc began with mumbling:

out, He found me not to he the Man of Partshe took me for ; Will J1/zmderbu{sfe-conded him, by muttering, That l was noSpecieof a Craftfmmt he was pofitive; ~ U d

Sqllire 1f ro12ghead,in his ufual clifntalWay, agreeing with the reO: murmur d

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27of united BztZ fonnding like Wind at di-fiance midfr the Trees before .the Stormbegins. In fhort found the Noire growing louder and louder which cOl1vinc d methat my whole Bufinefs upon fnch an :Emergency was by wme immediate Stratagem orother to endeavour at appealing the tem-peftuous Rage which their high fwol n Bo-foms fo poyfon d with Indi gnadon feem dto threaten me with And as Necej itv is

often found to be the Mother i lIz.velltio1Zllie was fo good a Mother to me at that cri-tical Mimttc as to bid me fian fome damn dhard Word or other which .very probablymight turn their ~ r yThoughts and fe t

them upon a different Argument in their mologicai Courfe of Sport by way ofrefuGame; which Advice I like a dl1tyfulChild to fo indulgent a Parent in the veryNick of Time put in PraCtice with all de-fir d Succefs.

BEG AN with the utmoftCaution in a gen:tie and mofi fubmiffive Tone to importunethe refenting Worthies that they would ifit was but for no longer TIme than two vii111ttes keep fan lock thore dreadful Gateswhich held as yet confin d the Furies oftheir too much injnr d .Souls - -- acknow-

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and that twas only to keep my Ignorance

conceal d; that I had {hove the putting a Difputation with Men of fuch Parts efpedally upon a Subject fofar above my Reach .but humbly hop cl as they were Wirnefies

how much I was concern d for having fooffended that I might be favour d with enjoying t h ~Ad vantage of finding them proverather inJhuctive Friends than Enemies:adding that my pleafing Hopes w r ~not alittle ltrengthen d by the Obfervations I had P1ade of that n o ~ l eUnity fo confpicu9uilyiliining forth from their Irhlmvirate

\V I 1 E I was expre1Iing this confounded

fet Speech I eafily difcern d the Sky ofibeir.PhyJiogllomiesgrew more and moreIerc12ewhIch prompted me. at once to put up my defign d and well-tim d etitiolt . whichI did in a very grave Manner: mail: humblydeGring they would affifi the eaknefs ofmy Intclle :5, in giving me their Judgmentand \hOights upon the t y m o l ~ g yof what Ibelievd as an old Word call d MO M U 5newly brought upon the pre[ent Stage.

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'-T Y allgap'd at the Theme I had o f ~fer'd, like callow J3irds while the old 011Cfeed them and wouldhave directlygoneupon it illg dOllg had I not regain'd fo

much Favour with them, as to get the Ar-gumentdeferr'd till the next Board ; which,neverthelefs,would not have ,been admitted,put that I engag' my felf to produceat theirnext Meeting, a ift ofa1lti.qlteJPords thattvere all taken into Cufiody in one Houfe)and condemn'd for being in Confederacywith } r J O ~ l W ;upon v horn Sentence waspafs'd y a Gemral Court of Toopr:es andG a d d e m y e ~ S i r s

a Sett of Wretches,who110twithfiandingthey're both ich and Gayyet tlccordhtg to e (w/ab. are neither ichnor Gay.

R U .having thus quieted Aftair ,they peacefullyadjourn'd tothe llext ;Evening [erlJell the Clock preci e ;J

T Time to which they adjourn d b e ~ll g fa ihort, there \vas no Opportunity forme to get off my Bargain; .therefore I hadnothing left to do but drawing up the promis' L 1 with the greate Expedition;

which' tho I mnch wanted to be excus'dfrom, yet it \vas fuch a Propohtiol1as I d u r f ~not fo much as hint to thofe tefty Gentry

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3 1 other than what one pleas to put upon it,was more convenient for a Purpofe intend-ed to put in Execution, than all the quaintTerms ill Chriii.endom: But alas the Even - l ~ came on, - - - and to a fecond of Time, lie 1 was lolling in thepretty Ban--keeper sLap, 1 was difiurb q with the Sound of re- /JC1Z a-Clock, ufher d in y the Triumvirate,who were now no longer a Tripple, but ythe Addition of my Perfon what they call

:a 2Jwdrztple Allimzce

had but jufi recover d from folac:ng myfelfin a very agreeable Manner, when SquireJ1tunderhz{s and his Companions {hot me

.quite thra the Ears, with a loud Salute of Sirrour moflhumbleServalzt, c. which Vol-ley return d with. Gmtlemm you lee I m,pUliClzeal,and fo follow d them to their Ta-ble appointed for Crofs Pzerpo{es.

T HE Board being fat, I deliver d in theScroll, which Iook d fomewhat like the -

tle-Page, and firfi Side of a ] [omellclatzlra,but noL fo explanatory. I told them veryplainly, was never acquainted with any of

the People mention d in it, i they werePeople, and hop d they d x ~ u me fromany Part of the Argument, which they agreedto. -- They chofe 1f1iII J1ht1lderbufs to put the2JtefiiVllS,as Matter arofe, in proper Order;

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tflronghet1d and Pttzzlepate- were appointedto argzte upon each Crambo while was in -dulg d to fit as an Arbitrator; if plea:>cl,11ponthe Whole;

BE R E they bega1 ~ deGred only

to inform them, whether there was not fome-thing more belonged to the SCroll hadproduced, to which reply d, there reallyhad been a Sort of Book ftiech d at the end

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of it, but as feveral Perfons who fcan d itSyllable by Syllable, have declaredthere was1lothi1lg ill t never took no Pains of per-uung it, an clfo careleily threw aGde. .;Yet believing twas impoffible fo mariy hard

Names and Things could be made ufe )fabout nothing, I preferved that Part;- andthought lliy laying it before them, might a Means of bringing fomewhat to Light,that feem d at prefent in Datknefs to my:thallow Comprehenfion; aild w,hich Ididnot doubt but the Crztciples oftheir rai lswould certainly effeCt. ~ l r t h raqding,That as it fcemed by fome illgellioits -Matt

defigned for an Ellicrtai1l1nellt; I hadanother Reafon to believe it was it f elygood 71e becaufe thole who /ome call theTowu did not like it, - like the -Pair8ex who gmcrallv t012dem11 celebratedJJeaztty for bei12gfo. Sqztire 1VRONGHEADgave me a gentle Reproof for offering to

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Nay, a di{creet Ford, to begin the ~ t l ofallYthi Jg defiglled as mzElZtertaiumellt.

T Door being thus far fet open for De-bate,VoetorPttzz epatewas directly opening

his Lips to ente.r npon the Argument whenmoll unhappily he was. difappointed by8qztire Wrollghead, who got the Start him by having fpoke the f rfl: \Vord fo

that Htollf,head was allow d to bef rft

heard and accordingly gave u ~ his Sentiments as follows.

T Squire began with declaring Thatthe Vord lrlomzts in his Ears differed verymuch in its Sound from any thing that.could be entertaining to him unlefs it wasthe pleafing Opportunity he had met with in

arguing upon its Etymology and the Matterin Debate. And that he took it to be amighty filly Effort of anyone to propofethe diverting your Illiterate People with

fuch a crabbed and uncouth \Vord as Mo-mus ; for that in cafe he was to advcrti e{my thi1tg with a Fiew of elltertahzi1tg the ublic his Judgment fhould lead. him nofurther than to fet forth the whole Affair inthree JFords viz. A W T H I N G. Af-ter which .he 1bould have no occaGon to

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~ ) .either a ?leW paiJlttd Rattle. 12ew tilt-fe/I d llobby-Bor/e.. or a fajhiolz d111ozlje-Irap. But he was of Opil1lon, the l would befl itit the Tafle : And was, Jtolerably weU allured it could not accor-ding to Law give any Audiellce liberty ina litteral Senfe, to fay they were trick dor affronted. For what reafonab e Crea-tures, (fuch as every Audience is fl1pp01id toconfifl: of) could in Confcience e re morethan a Performance of all that either anAuthor had propo{ed to entertain them with,or their ztriojifJI having read the \ holeMatter before Hand, prompted them to fee.

U the Squire indeed admitted, .thathe was not altogether void of apprehendingfome Dif ztrba12ces, which might attend thePerformal2Ce of even what he had propofed;tho' never fo inviting in its Title, or juft inits Execution: For the Squire had faid, as hehad heard it very wifely obferv'd, that there's72 gel1eral Rztlewithoztt al2 ExceptiOlz fohe had great Reafon to believe himfelf nottoo fecme from Interruption, tho' his Schemewas New, Short, and Pathetic: There beingalways found a Mixture in A Jemblies of a

di[cenii1zg[ort of fiteu whofe extraordinaryPe12etratiolz generally drives them to put amore extentlve, and perhaps a worfe M e a n ~ing upon the Lztcubratio12S of an Aztthor

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than ever the Author meant. Of which

Sett the Sqztire faid he fhould firfl makebold to give fome Account mzd thC1Zproceed in his Argument upon the Queftion.

fuch di{cc1 1zi1ZgGentry, the Sqztireintimated there were three 1Ji/filZftiol1S;viz.the wife, tbe very lflife, and thewifeftof ll \Vhich tl:weeClaf1esofK,Z{;Wledge, he faid had their refpettive Degreesof jztdiciallmploymclztaffigned them for theCorre'f1illgofErrors according to their feve-ral Capacities i,Z Criticifin; which theywere not only noted to tranfaa with prodi-

gious l.1.oddl..vin the moft gelzerotts, private,and C 1ZCi[el ~ a l z e r but were likewife ce-lebrated for their unparralell d Endeavourseffettually to e f l a h l ~ han llt1Ziverfalfublimitywith regard to Letters, Speech, and A'f1iolZ:And notwithftanding they are Sett whoin their pure Nature may be difcovered toenjoy as equal a Fondnefs for t W thi11g any propofed .I1udicl1ce; yet the Squire

faid the Fmzrtiolz of fuch Men laid themunder an abfolute Neceffity ofalways fhow-ing remarkable [ort of 1Ji/like to allPerfirmallces whatever; partly owing totheir fear of loling the zt1zaccozt1ztablcRe-ptttatiolz which they had gain d of beingthought capable to fit in their Turns uponthe tyraJziea 1'/1ro12C of CCJt{zwe,in t h ~

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Body of an fimphitheatre, and partly throdread of forfeiting the charitable C012tribzttiO;JS of Pitt JJox, and Gallery MOlzey,which is often difiributed among them forthe noble ufe of their fitperior Spirits, and'lJaft ] ltdgment in dam1Zilzgaccording totheir Manner, fuch Authors H orks as theirdi{creet Benefaffors or Patrons have neither leifllre from their oiolmt St ltdies toamend, nor Stock fufllcient of either Cott'rage or Crttelty to co.ldemn ny other ~than by fuch their zmerri1Jg Depttties.

T IS the Sq'lti1 e faicl being con i der d .

madeit

feem to him morally impolfible forhis Project, tho a 1zewthi1zg, to come bet-ter off than Momtts, or the Works of many,Fools; who have mifemploy dtheir lime ftriving to obligeCl1zdelztertai,z the Pltb-lic Which poetical Nztmp es, if they wereAmbitious of chimi1zg i12 with the limes,:fhould, according to the Nature of them,rather chafe, either to have laboured in

the Harneffes of Coach-Hories, or otherwiferun in Couples with the Collars of[porti1zg'1Jeagles about their ecks In which fortof l1zdztflry they would have met with muchbetter Succefs with regard to Promotion,than by all their mif{pC1ZtLabollr of theJ3railz, in compofing even the belt CouPlets of Verfes, c. that their filly Noddles

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38 could ~ r t nto make and thereforewas convinc d with refpett to fuch an Elttertai1111Ze12tas he had propofed ; that althotwas fo exceedhlglycomEaetj yet thofe threementioned ClaJfes of jitperlative Wijd,1m,would not fail doing him the Favour of be-ing immediately about his Houfe; andfrom whom he did not in the leaft doubtbut he fhould receive the following difcreettho fevere Ufage and CeniiIre y way of

an odd Method of thmJlu, which they ge-nerally pay to au Authorfor the Pabzs hehas took.

T Sqttirc raid he was perfwaded thatthe Fife would take it into their Fanciesto imagine y his prefenting to them 12ewpainted Rattle, that he h d done it y wayof Hieroglyphical Rdleffi01z upon the Au-dience which Thought he faid could ne-ver have enter d his jhallow Scull if theydid not confirue it fo of their OWiZ Heads.And Ten to One he raid if the vcr,) TFifewho are terrible {ort of Critics, wou dnot as undoubtedly cavil at the ttle formaking a Noire, which their great Wi(dommight perhaps take for \ Sort of ,peaki72gin their way; and would therefore cry outVmnJJ the Performance, tis Ol t of the ri Rides of Pantomimes. Which ifit fhould fo happen; he faid tbo{etwo mi(-

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chicrtJOZlSC01zjef1lrcsof Reflefliolz and

Noife, would inevitably draw upon him theinfupportable Sentence of the H ifeflof alfwho never fail chiming in with the firftand {ecolld ClajJes, and are fo great in theirillterrztptilzg Inge1lZtityj that no fooner thanan Author has been judg d Gztilty by thewife alld oery wife; but the wife/lofall atonce pronounce him damn d without givi1zghim the Opportzmityof a further Hearil1g.

InHantly putting a Stop to any other Perlbn sbeing either diverted or quiet Bec f2{ethCJwon t like the Thing.

EA of thefe Cla /festhe Squire-faidhad their refpeftive :Bujilie[s prefcnb dwhich is as foHo\vs viz The Wife were appointed tojhake their Heads, and be often.juftling whoever fat by them; . tbc :er y fife were to Grimz by way of Prologueto a iU and fo to excite many o t r ~who knew no better to do the fame way of Fzt1Zas they call it;- And the_wi cft of all- were to found to Arms withtheir Trztmpets made of Scofpiol1S Buckleboues, blowing up the Spirit of Re/e;ztme;ltthroughout the whole Affimbly,who according to their Defign were immediately to

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n y Accident, indeed, the Sqztire raidAuthor might efcape in a tolerable Man-

ner but that he own d muH: alone be owingto a certain fort of Miftakes thof : prodigir.:tts

wi[c Gelttry now. and then happen to makein either Hij/illg or Clappi1tgimproperly:Which feeming Error when enquir d into)they exczt{eVCI hand/omely, faying, theyeither left their Memorandums at Home, orunfortunately rni/zmdcrflood 2 t onlythe Natzwc of the TIJi12g httt aUo-what their Patro11S id em do either of which, the Squirefaid, he had great Hope:; they woul.d be guil-

ty of at his propos d E,ttertait/me,tt, tho , twas to cOlzjifllmtof C Thi71gi for he hadknown a Sett of them blunder extrava-gantly ilt applaztdi1zgfrich balderda111 Stuffas Shake[pear s, Otway s, COl1greve sand others, alike Wretches of Authors, pointblanc cOlztrary to thc lJireffions of theirJ1C1lefaflors.

~ thing more the Sqztire raid he hadobferv cl with refped to the Courage of thofePerfons who :/how their pretty Teeth, yet1zcver Bite; whore ra/Ottr is not a little tobe admir d For notwithfianding theywillneither Compo[ethem[elves, as a certain .Ilzt-thordefir d them) nor oblige the World withthe Knowledge of their Perfons, yet in the

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midfi of the greatefiAffemblies, with an a b a ~

zing and undaunted . / : ~ f irance, they 11 makenothing to fet the vhole AudieNceilz ll p ~roar, and under the Shelter of their Obfcu rity, being muffi d, and a F U ~ P O [to theCentinel,

will id Vejia1Jce to t i mofl 120 -

ble Circle to call them to any Account.rl he Squire after this Relation) proceed

cd upon the 2Jtefliou, much wondring how n bgC12ioZ6sAmhor with Scholafiic Learn-

ing could make fo unhappy ;;l Choice as hethought Momzts was, for his Fh:ft H ord ofIwl itati012, unlefs he had firit gain d a Number of Profelites fufficient for his Purpofe, ybringingback a Part of Mankind to the goodand wholefome old Way of thinking, andoriginal State of Innocence. For I remem-.ber, j id the Sqztire, to have read when Iwas at School of one .Ll1omztswho was.

hated by all us m21ztcky7Joys and tho ourMafler who difcern our Difiike of him)told us, that notwithfranding lvlomz s mightfeem to us a very odd Fellow and a TellTale, F a z t l t ~ f i 2 d i l l gGod of the A17Cic12fSyet he was as ufefuJ in his Vvay as anyGod of them all for which Renfon heurg cl that the Boys ought to re\ cre him Ne-verthelc[s, w mzlud J 1les being near

as cnnning, tho not altogether fo wife as our},lafier, foon difcover d he was not a littlefelfinterefied in what he h ~faid; and that

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could have thought that a political Atfalz

would ever have chofe fnch an Om of theway Per[o z r Momns, for a J a c k ~ P z t d -ding to divert a Number of People, whoaltho .they are without Fault would, Nineof them in Ten, depart grumbling, out ofa true Spirit of Humaniry ; rcfenting to heartheir Neighbonrs Crimes publifl1ed on thisStage of Life, by fuch a Night-Bird as fitlo- nZIS For, if Memory han t given m the

Slip; .fl1omzlswas the real Son of that darkand difmal Jade Night who fi1elters all theWhores and Street-Robbers about Town,

.notwithftanding the C012vexEyes of Aflreaare judicially fix d at mo Avenues for thefafe ConduCt of h012e l llachtllZtlletll2s whofeldom take their Journey homeward tillthat black Hagg Madam Ol{curity is gotabroad in her full lYleriditllz. own, fameSycophants now and then flatter t ~ eHu1feywith the Name of Good Night;. but neverthelefs muft have the Liberty of hating theBaggage for bringing into the WorId that fadFellow lrlomzts.

T Squire to conclude his Argumentagainfi:. the Word, alledg d, That as veryfew wou d be diverted with hearing theirFaults, Momlts could not any way entertaining to. fuch a Number as ~ n Author.inclines to invite: And as he believ d Mc.

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44mztswas a Vord underfiood but by very few,

it could not be judg d any more inviting tothat Part of the deiir d Number who did notknow him, than to thofe that did; for asthe jirft JJlow is generally accounted halfthe JJattle fo the firfl alld emphatic f ord

of ritle generally firikes the Reader s tMind with Pleafure or Diflike, making halfthe Impreffion at one Stroke, be it good orbad. A plain Infiance of which the Squirefaid, might daily fee, by only giving ourfelves the Trouble of tepping into a JJook/el-ler s Shop where we 111 uld quickly difcernhow much fuperior the Policy of J1ook[elleris to the Judgment of alZ .I1ltthor; by o b f e r v ~ing the Lime-twigg Titles of their own com-pofing, which are laid in great Order ontheir Compters to catch the cttriotts JJirdsof Life who wou d ne er be taken in by theAttthor s ChC J , if there was not a little

Rhetorical Coni of Bookletler thrpwn overit And therefore he faid, Momtts wal2ti12 ,that Lhne-twigg Facttlty was 110t, i7zhisOpilzio12, difereet lor for the itle ofa12 E12tertai1211ZeJ. t : But he own d himfelfnot fa fufficient a Judge as the Matter in de-bate requir d; and therefore he defir d Doe tor Pttzzlepate would begin, and obligellim with his Thoughts ttp 1Zthe .Qjtefli012.

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Difcourfe gave a much long d-for Liberty

of Speech to the Vr/i1or, whofe Impatienceprevented the Ceremony of a fecond Re-queft; for in h l /eco12dofTimehe prov dhis undoubted Right of being the next imme

diate Orator upon the 5ubjettin

Hand.T Prelude of his Harangue confined

of two or three awk\vard Compliments to Sqztire Hh71ghead, upon what he had fpokeof MOnzZls,with regard to his having faidfo much and argu d fa very long upon lheme which did not feem to him altogetherfo well propos d in the 2Jtefli0l2as otherwife

it might have been: For iaid the VoF101 ,our Friend Blzmderbzt{s not having difiinguilh d whether the Name in debate was tobe argu d upon as the mzcient MOffms, or as

one of a modern Stamp; it could not

well decided by any fingle Genius till. thatPoint was clear d: Neverthelefs he faid asit gave him his wilh d-for Opportunity ofarguing in a differentManner to what Squire1/'ro12gheadhad fa id upon it; he was muchbetter pleas d with finding fuch an Obfcurityin the ,Qjteflioll, than he jhould have been tohave had it put in a plain Vay. For theg oflor faid. if the J.l Jomus in debate had

been ahfolutely fiated as the Pault-jilzdi1zg1J1helpof the AnciClZts, he muft in fuch a< ufe have thought himfelf immediately

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4 6 )hlig d to fllbmit in all RefpeCts to what Squire- lProllghead had advanc d on thatHead, and ro have direCtly laid down hisCzedgelof Argzemc1Ztupon the Squire s firft Blow

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u r g S the 2Jtefti012feem d in the Doctor s Mind to frand thus between Hawk and1Jzezzard he hugg d himfelf with the Ad-v n ~ ghe had in its being as liable to be con-ftru by him for a modcT1zMomzes as anantique Cbitrl; and thereupon he took theFreedom of faying, That his Opinion wasnot the difiance of a Furlong from down-

right believing, that fllppoGng it modefltand Verynew it might pOl iblybe very divertingamong fome Folks for fome time; there beingone Thing in that Cafe which {eero d to himexceedingly in Favour of the Word Mo1 J1uswhether it had any Meaning or none: F or the IJof1or faid, That to the inexpreffibleCOijlfortof feveral Perfons whore Births hadhappen d to refine em, and who, for the moft

part, may chance to entertain a darling Paf-flon for fuch Words, while new; he couldafl ure them they had an Opportunity worthem,bracing, to fay great Matters in this 11 10- } l t ~ l s

Behalf, with refpeCl:to its never having~ nas yet poluted by the vulgar Acce 1to either FootmC1JCbambcr-maidJ or Cook- wenches.; nay, nor was it ever more than

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once and then butfoftly whifpertd,) by a

Lady s Hfoma1Z who,g u i ~ l y

met ?er ju{tReward for domg fo, bemg (ozt1Zdlychid.Therefore, the Doffor faid, he did n ot doubtbut lv lo 2ztswas not only in Efieem at thatTime among the better Sort of F o l k ~ ut

was very likely to remain fo for a confiderahIe while, being a Word not commonly un-derfiood, and that good Fortune efcap da Mixture with your paltry comm012Sel1fe,which {ort of K120wledge is with Rea 01z 2 t much valued owing to the mean ExtraUio?t ~ f the Wretches who mqft vulgarlyenjoy the U[e 012 t

Neverthelefs Doffor Pztzzlepate couldnot, according to his a c c l 1 a o m ~Method, avoid flying off a little from his propos d Securityof the Word Momus tho flated byhimfelf as modenzand New; for the Vofforfaid, he could neither abfollltely nor prorerlywarrant M o m ~ t ss continuing an Hour longerin Favour than Words of common Senfe andgood Meaning; he having obferv d a Sett of

Perfons whofe fafhionable Method of proceeding had almofr deflroy d the Foundationof his Heady Principles, their fetting himthe Example of defpi/illg e,very t i l z ~afterit had hem 012ce hmzdledby People of a lowRank; which Ob[ervation he faid, convine d him that tbe befl of Tbi1zgs were but jhort


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ciently underfiood to be any wayentertaining:

which the CJ oflorendeavour d to demon-{hate, traverhng the Mattera little further,and giving us his Report of fome Notions thatwere entertain d of it in feveral Families,withwhom he had been frequently debating uponits EtJ111ologybefore that Evening: tho hewas fo fly as not to make any of us in theleafr privy to it till that Moment.

T J oaor began his Report with declaring he had found 01011 People of Opinionthat the ldo111ZLsin difpute, was a modCl JName: and was thought by a Perfon in one

Family) to have been invented by its Authorin the way of a 11cw-fafhio1Z dFamily i -dIe: and therefore they argued upon it in thefamiliar Phrafe of iddle my iddle my

Ree c. . But the~ o o r

affur d us, that,after a tedious Debate ended, none of them could find out neither iR..,hat this Mormlscould be, nor who.

I another Family he faid where theywere difputing upon the \V ord; Nmjewho was leading a Child about the Room,put in her VerdiCt, and begg d her Ladywould give her Leave to make Ufc of that,

Word Momtts for the keeping little Manerin Awe when he was naughty, infiead of.Rawbcada1zd Bloody-boues: for file thoughtit founded like a more genteel Name t t ~

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1710 Royal Remarks; Or, The Indian King’s Observations (Ocr)