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2 A PARSO Y RICK now flufh’d with a good Dofe of Reviving Neétar, when as juft before you fate Drowfie and Melancholly, -as if you were lately come out of fome Hermit’s Cell. But as It 1s ufual, that as foon as the Sun peeps from her Eaflern Bed, and draws back the Curtains of the darkfome Night 3.0r as when after a hard Winter the Reftorative Spring breathes 4 more enlivening Air, Nature forthwith changes her Apparel, and all things feem to renew their Age; fo at the firſt Sight of me you all Unmask, and appear in more lively Colours. That therefore which expert Orators can fcarce effe& by all their little Artifice of Elo quence, to wit, a raifing the Atrentions of their Auditors to a Compofednefs of Thought, this a bare Look from me has commanded. - The Reaſon why I appear in this odd kind of Garb you fhall foon be informed of, if for fo fhort a while you will have but the Patience to lend me.an Ear; yet not fuch an one as you are wont to hearken with to your Reverend Preachers, ‘but as you liſten withal to Mountebanks, Buffoons, and Aferry-Andrews 5 in fhort, fuch as were formerly faftned to Midas, asa Punifhment for his Affront to the God Paz. For lam now in a Humour.to af awhile the Sopift, yet not of that. Sort who undertake the Drudgery of tyrannizing over School-Boys, and teach a more than Womanifh Knack of Brawling ; but in Imitatión of ‘thoſe Ancient Ones, who to avoid the Scandalous Epithet of Wiſe, preferr’d this Title eee
