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upon FOLEY,
Foolifh ; for under what more proper Appel¬
lation can the Goddefs Folly greet her De¬
vores? But fince there are few acquainted
with my Family and Original, I'll now give
you fome Account of my Extraction.
First then, my Father was neither the
Chaos, nor Hell, nor Saturn, nor Fupiter,
nor any of thoſe old, worn out, Grandfire
Gods, but Plutus, the very ſame that, Mau¬
gre Homer, Heſiod, nay, in fpight of Fove
himſelf, was the primary Father of the Uni:
Religion and? Civil Policy, have been fuc¬
ceflively Unéermined and Re-eftablifhed by
whofe powérful Influence War, Peace, Em¬
pire, Debates, Juttice, Magiftracy, Marriage,.
Leagues; Compacts, Laws, Arts, (I’ve almoft
run myſelf out of Breath, but) in a Word, all
Affairs of Church and State, and Bufinefs of
private Concern, are feverally Ordered and
Adminiftred; without whofe Affiftance all the
Poets Gang of Deities, nay, Imay be fo bold ¬
as to fay the very Major-domo’s of Heaven,
would either dwindle into nothing, or at leaft
be confined to their refpective Homes, with¬
out any Ceremonies of Devotional Addrefs :
Whom he combats with as an Enemy no¬
thing can be Armour-proof againft his Af
ffaults ; and whoſoever he fides With as <a.
Friend, may grapple at even Hand with Fove, ,
and all his Bolts. — a fo he
well brag; and he begot me, not o ad
Brain, as Fupiter did the Hag Pallas, = a
a pretty young Nymph, fam’d for Wi E. A
than Beauty : And this Feat was ae