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C vii Y Veil:then, or.vanifh, die, or difappear; And leave ws Fools to. our Careffes here. My thund’ring Mandateshaving purg"d the Air, The Gods conſenting, and the Paffage clear, T thus attempt my Grandeur to extol, A&ing my own Encomiaft in a Droll: PI make defcriptive Gloffes on a Straw, And tofs the World to a Tarantula. Thus; long-blefs’d Herd, have E with Patience feen Minerva'’s- Scepter: taking Place of’ mine :That curs’d irago, whofe officious Spies Have watch’d you-out of all your Libraries : Her Devorées, a bafe,. degenerous Brood, Like wafpifh Infes fwarm, and buz abroad: Thefe with unruly Infolence have made Injurious Inroads on thofe Rights I had 5 They fetter Souls with: Magiſterial Rage, And letture Freemen into. Vifalaze 3 Nay, by the Cércumvenrions of Diſpute, They’ prove my Chaftity a Profliture.. Thus overgrown in Sophiftry and Pride, Theyre Kengs themfelves, but make all Slaves And fhall thefeR ebelsthus ufurp it on? [befide : No, their Dogmatick Tyranny fhall down. Inſtead of Problems, Schemes, Compendeums, ThofeExecurion-Engines of the Schools, (Rules, I, with my Péures,Puppers, Dwarfs and Apes, Mafques,, Mermaids, Interludes, and AntickWill mount theStage,ridiculouflyFine, (Shapes, In all the Colours of an Indéan-QuEEN,.* * Alluding to a Play under that Title, Written by Sir. Robert Howard, aaae aTa ina vi ELL I
