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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 menace¬
looking 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 Under¬
witted 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 Ce¬
remonial 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 up¬
on the Mifcarriages of others, when the lea¬
cherous Intrigues of Fove himfelf are fo noto¬
rious; and when the pretendedly chafle Diana
fo oft uncloak’d her Modeſty to runa Hunting
after her Beloved Eudimionz. . But FIL fay. no
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