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A PANEGYRICE med of my Relation, as to caſt it in others Difh for a Shame and Reproach : Wherefore fince they are fo eager to be accounted IWiſe, when in truth they are extreamly S7//y, what, if to give them their due, Idubthem with the Title of Wiſe Fools : And herein they Copy after the Example of fome Modern Orators, who fwell to that Proportion of Conceitednefs, as to vaunt themfelves for fo many Giants of Eloquence, if with a Double-tongu’d Fluency they can plead indifferently for either Side, and deem. it a. very doughty Exploit if they can but Interlard a Zatzz Sentence with fome Greck Word, which for feeming Garnish they croud in at a. Venture ; and rather than be at È a. Stand for ſome cramp Words, they'll furi nifhup a long Scroul of old obfolete Terms | out of ſome muſty Author, and foiſt them in, j to amufe the Reader with, that thofe who È underftand them may be tickled with the È Happinefs of being acquainted with them | and thoſe who underſtand them not, the Li they know the morethey may admire : Whereas it has been always a Cuſtom to thoſe of E our Side to contemn and undervalue whatever Ae is ftrange and unufual, while thofe that are bet| ter Conceited of themfelves will Nod and E” Smile, and prick up their Ears, that Bey | | may be thought. eafily to apprehend that, of which perhaps they do not underftand Word. And fo much for this : ard “6A Digreffion, now I return. oo ons | Cr my Name I have informed 1 ‘ iti i = : what Additional Epithet to give a eae you TI know:
