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S i PANEGYRICK amidſt the Embraces of dull naufeous Wedlock, but what gave a greater Guſt to the Pleaſure, it was done at a flol’z Bout, as we may modefltly Phrafe it. But to prevent your miftaking me, I would have you underftand that- my Father was not that Putus in Arzftophanes, Old, Dry, Withered, Saplefs and Blind ; but the:fame in his Younger and Brisker Days, and when his Veins were more’ impregnated, and the.Heat of his Youth fomewhat higher inflamed by a chirping Cup of Near, which for a whet to his Lutt he had jut before drank very freely of atta Merrymeeting of the Gods. And now prefuming you may be inquifitive after my Pzrrh-place, (the Quality of the Place we are Born in, being now look’d upon as a main Ingredient of Gentility,) I were Born neither in the floating Delo’s, nor on the frothy Sea, nor in any of thefe Privacies, where too forward Mothers are wont to retire for. an undiſcovered Delivery 3 but-.in the: Fortune lands, where all. Things grow: without the Toil of Husbandry, wherein there is no Drudgery, no Diftempers, no. Old» Age, where im the Fields grow:no Daffadillies, Mallows, Onions, Peaſe, Beans, or-fuch kind. of. Trafh, but there give. equal Divertifement to our Sight and SmeHing, Rue, All-hcal; Buglofs, Marjoram, Herb. of Life, Roſes, Violets, Hyacinth, and fuch: like Fragrances as perfume the. Gardens: of Adonis And being Born amongft thefe Delights, J did not, . like other Infants, come crying «nto the World, but perk’d up, and laugh d immediately in my Mother's. Face, And 4
