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To the Reader he levels more fecurely, wounds more inoffene fively, and leaves room for a ſafer Retreat; ban if be fell too bluntly on, and made an open Aflault infeed of an ambufcading Surprize. And indeed the Palate of each Maws Judgment being the fame with that of his Tafe, is cloggd and naufeated with whats {weet and luſcious, and repaired only by the whetting Particles of fharp and corroding, jet again a too biting, Reproof, without fome Intermixture of Wheedle, ſeldom mak-ing Converts of tbofe it is applied to: Subf this Nature ave certainly then beff “hand'ed, when the Perfons to be refleZ@ed on are in the fame Periods laugh'd out-of their Miftakes, and yct Hattered into Amendment. By tbis Artifice, in. the following Trad, all be Scandals, Gorruprions, groffer. Abfurdities, or more trivial Failures of a crazy World, are expoſed with as equal a Doſe of Infinuation as varcaſm, as eitber the Oylinels of a ] Sycophant could on the one Hand. ſuggeſt, sr the Gall of a Poet on. the other exprefs. As he {pared no one Degree of Age, Sex or AE à E ; TELES: OT LI fo, to be moſt Corroſive, where the Sore was moft Cankrous, he ir leſs niggard'y of his Taunts and Stridures, upon the Botches and Excrefcences of the Roman Church, whofe Marts of Indulgence, Trinkets of Superftition, Blindneſs of the Laity, Impoffures of the > Prieft,
