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upon F ory, 177 céptable Embellifhment of à erpetual Talkativenefì. Add to this, that Old Men love to be playing with Children, and Children delight as much in them, to verifie the Proverb, . that Birds of a Feather flock together. And indeed what difference can be difcern’d between ‘em, ‘but that the one is more furrow’d with : | „Wrinkles, and has: feen a little more of the : | World ¡than the other ? For otherwife their | Whitifh. Hair, their. Want of "Teeth, their | Smalnefs of Stature;. their. Milk Diet, their ~ | Bald Crowns, their Pratling, their Playing, their fhort Memory, their Heedlefnefs, and all their other Endowments, exaétly agree ; and ` | the more they advance in Years, the nearer | they come back to their Cradle, . till,’ like ` | Children indeed, at laft they departthe World. | without any. Remorfe atthe Lofs of Life, or |! Senfe of the Pangs of Death. - : È Ann now let any one compare the Excel lency of my Metamorphofing Power to that which Ovéd attributes to: the Gods; “their itrange Feats in {ome drunken Paffions we will | omit for their Credit ſake, and inſtance only in À fuch Perfons as they pretend greet Kindneffes | for: Thefe are transform’d into. Trees, Birds, | Infe&s, and. fometimes Serpents ; but “alas, their very Change into fomewhat elfe argues à the Deftruétion of what. they were before s : | whereas I can reftore the fame numerical. Man E to his. priftine. State of: Youth, Health and Strength: Yea, what-is more, if Men would i but fo far confult their own Intereft, (as to: dif card all Thoughts of. Wiſdom, qnd ‘entirely > refign themfelves to my Guidance and Condud;*: > Fe + AZIONI
