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upon FOLL y. 19° fome Medea, Circe, Venus, or fome enchanted | Fountain, fora Reftorative of Age, whereas the Accurate Performance of this Feat lyes only within the Ability of my Art and Skill. Ir is I only who have the Receipt ‘of making that Liquorwherewith Memnon’s Daughter lengthen’d out her Grandfather’s declini Days: lt is I that am that Venus, who E far reftor’d the languifhing Phaon, as to make. Sapho fall deeply in Love with his Beauty. . Mine arethofe Herbs, mine thofe Charms, that not only lure back fwift Time, when paft and gone, but-(what-is more to be admired) clip its Wings, and prevent all farther. Flight. So then, if you’ will all agree to my Verdiét, that nothing is more defirablé than the being Young, nor any thing ‘more loathed than contemptible Old Age, you~ muft needs ac: knowlédge it is ar era Obligation . from me, for fencing off the One, and -perpetuating the Other. i És: Bur why ſhould T confine my Diſcourſe to the narrow Subject of Mankind only? View the whole Héaven itfelf, and there tell me what one of that Divine Tribe would not be mean and defpicable-if -my Name did not lend him fome Refpe& and Authority: Why is Bacchus always painted as a Young Man, [Fic. VII.] but only becaufe he is Freakifh, Drunk and: Mad, .and’ ffending his: Time in Toping, Dancing, Masking and Revelling, feems to have nothing in the leaf to do with. Wifdom? Nay, .fo far is he from the Affettation of being accounted Wiſe, that he is content all the. Rites of Devotion. which are paid un# to.
