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ees Rie at at occ: Ven
who are offended at the Lich a ono dle TOT
try of this- Subjet, I LOE ped tc er
der that I do not fet deli DAR Dem Come
Etample of Bis Hind, bor bai the Jami BAE
been oft done by many Confiderable ben
For thus feveral Ages fince, Homer aera
no more weighty a Subject than of 4 Wa de À
tween the Frogs and Mice Virgil ae
and a Pudding-Cake sl © 8 a of a Guat
Polycrates- commended the Cruelt 4 B aaa
and Mfocrates, that correéts Fim f hae, did
as much for the Injuftice of Glaucus. F. i
vorinus extoll’d Thirfites, and wrote se
Praile of a Quartan Ague. Synefius pleaded.
in behalf of Balduefs : And Tucian defended
a Skippeng- Fly. Seneca drolizngly related the
Deifying of Claudius; Plutarch the Dia
logue betwext Gryllus azd Ulyffes ; Lucian
and Apuleius tke Story of an Afs 5 and Some¬
body elfe Records the laft Will of a Hog, ©
which St. Hierom makes Mention. So ‘that
if they pleaſe, let themfelves think the Worft
of. me, and fancy to themſelves that I were
all this while a playing at Pufb-pin, or ride¬
ing Aftride on a Hobby-Horfe. For bow un¬
juſt ¿s it, if when we allow different Recre¬
“ations to each Particular Courfe of Life, we
afford no Diverſion to Studies ; Eſpecially
when Trifles may bea Wher to more ferzous
Thoughts, and Comical Matters may be fo
treated of, as that a Reader of Ordinary.
Senfe may poffibly thence reap more Advan¬
tage than from Jome more Big and Stately Argu¬
i meint: