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20 A PANEGYRICK: Jéry. Farther,. what Scoffs and Jeers did fvinifh Paunch-gur God,. (ay they) that finells rank of the Stybe was fou’ à up in, and fo on... But: prethee who in his Cafe, . alway Merry, Youthful, foak’d in Wine; and drown'd in Pleaſures, who (I ſay) in ſuch a Caſe would change Conditions either with the lofty menacelooking ove, the grave, yet timorous. Paz, the ftately Palas, or indeed any one_other of Heaven’s Landlords? Why is Cupzd feign’d as a Boy, but only becaufe he is an Underwitted Whipfter, that neither acts nor thinks any thing with Difcretion ? Why is Vezus ador’d : fot the. Mirrour of Beauty; but. only becauſe ſhe and :I claim Kindred, ſhe being of the fame Complexion» with my Father Plutus, and therefore call’d by Homer the Golden -Goddefs ? Befide, fhe imitates me in being alway a laughing, if either we believe the Poers, .or their near K infmen the Painters, the fir Mentioning, the, other Draweng her conftantly in that Pofture.. Add: farthier, to what Deity did the Romans pay a more Ceremonial Reifpe& than to Flora, that Bawd of Obfcenity? And if any one fearch the Poets for an Hiftorical Account of the Gods, he fhall find ‘them all Famous for Lewd Pranks and Debaucheries. . It is needlefs to infit upon the Mifcarriages of others, when the leacherous Intrigues of Fove himfelf are fo notorious; and when the pretendedly chafle Diana fo oft uncloak’d her Modeſty to runa Hunting after her Beloved Eudimionz. . But FIL fay. no more, +
