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Cii) er ated anew the : è : 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 Somebody 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 rideing Aftride on a Hobby-Horfe. For bow unjuſt ¿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 Advantage than from Jome more Big and Stately Argui meint:
