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30 Erasmus is not guilty of, while one while with his poltfoot, another with his smutcht muzzle, another with his impertinencies, he makes sport for the rest of the Gods? As also that old Silenus with his Countrey-dances, Polyphemus footing time to his Cyclops hammers, the Nymphs with their Jiggs, and Satyrs with their Anticks; whilst Pan makes ’em all twitter with some coarse Ballad, which yet they had rather hear than the Muses themselves, and chiefly when they are well whitled with Nectar. Besides, what should I mention what these Gods do when they are half drunk? Now by my troth, so foolish that I my self can hardly refrain laughter. But in these matters ’twere better we remember’d Harpocrates, lest some Eves-dropping God or other take us whispering that which Momus onely has the priviledge of speaking at length. And therefore, according to Homer’s example, I think it high time to leave the Gods to themselves, and look down a little on the Earth; wherein likewise you’ll find nothing frolick or fortunate, that it ows not to me. So provident has that great Parent of Mankind, Nature, been, that there should not be any thing without it’s
