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upon FOLLY. TI in all, and toward all, exert an unparallel’4 For Inftance, in the firt Place, what can And yet for this are none beholden, favetome alone. . Forit isneitherthe Spearof throughlybegotten Pallas, nor the Buckler of Cloudgathering ove, that -multiplies and propagates Mankind: But.that Prime Father of the Univerſe, who at a difpleafing Nod makes Heaven itſelf to tremble, he (I fay) muft lay afide “his frightful Enfigns of Majeſty, and put away that grim Aſpe& wherewith he makes the other Gods to quake, and Stage- ` player-like, muft alter his uſual Character, i£ he would do that, the doing whereof -he cannot refrain from; Z +e: Getting of Children. The next Place to the Gods is challenged by the Stozcks ; but give me one as Stoical as Ill-nature can make him; and if I do not prevail on him to part with his Beard, that Bufh of Wiſdom, (though no other Ornament than what Nature in more ample manner has given to Goats, ) yet at leaft he fhall lay by his Gravity, ſmooth ‘up his. Brow, relinquiſh his rigid Tenets, [Fia..V.] and in Defpite of Prejudice become fenfible of fome Paffion in wanton Sport and Dallying. » In a Word, this Diétator of Wifdom fhallhe glad to take Folly for his Diverfien, if ever he would arrive to the Honour of a Father. And why fheuld I not tell my Story out? To proceed then: Is it the Head, the Face,.the Breafts, the Hands, the Ears, or other. more comely. Parts, that ferve for Inftruments of Generation 2 1 trow not,
