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r2 Erasmus my breast. No, I am in every respect so like my self, that neither can they dissemble me, who arrogate to themselves the appearance and title of Wisemen, and walk 1 like Asses in Scarlethoods; though after all their hypocrisie Midas’s ears will discover their Master. A most ingrateful generation of men, that, when they are wholly given up to my Party, are yet publickly asham’d of the name, as taking it for a reproach; for which cause, since in truth they are Mapérarou, Fools, and yet would appear to the World to be Wisemen and Thales’s, wee’ll ev’n call ’em Mowporopovs, Wise-fools. Nor will it be amiss also to imitate the Rhetoricians of our times, who think themselves in a manner Gods, if like Horse-leeches they can but appear to be double-tongu’d ; and believe they have done a mighty act if in their Latin Orations they can but shuffle-in some ends of Greek, like Mosaick-work, though altogether by head and shoulders and less to the purpose. And if they want hard words, they run over some Worm-eaten Manuscript, and pick out half a Dozen of the most old and absolete to con? in purpura simiae.
