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is the bett: workman, the taylor who must have mat-
ter to work upon, or the lawyer, who can make a.
long suit out of nothing? your taylor's fuit is gone
in half a year, but the lawyer's will last often to your
posterity; fuppose he hurries you out of breath upon
a wrong scent, yet then he will give you time by a
writ of Error, or Demurrer, to recover your self, and-
keep in fast friendship to you, whilft you have the
ftrength of one fee left. And tho' he runs fome out
of their estates, be often gives to others other peoples.
estates, which is yet some compensation. Say he takes
fees on both sides, he then manages the cause accor-
dingly, which is something analogical to cquity; nay,
put the worst, that you are quite ruin'd, he tells you
it comes from your own mif-informing of him, which
whether you apprehend or not, you ought to believe,
as supposing he best understands what belongs to bis
own business. Now your miller. and taylor ard, by
no means capacitated for such fine qualifications as
there.

Q. Gentlemen, 1 desire you will please to let me know what fex the DEVIL is of?

A. By his roughness one would take him to be of the masculine gender, but since he so often appears in petticoats, we have more reason to believe him an HERMAPHRODITE.

Q. Pray, Gentlemen, do Englishmen or East-Indians most value and refpe& women, fonce the forft take no wife without money, and the last give great jums of money for

A. When the Indians give money for a wife, they look upon

her as a Nave, and use her as a purchas'd vaffal, nor confine themselves to one alonc; whereas our countrymen plaçıng too great a value on the sex, to buy 'em as they do cattle, receive 'em on more honourable terms, and for their persons give them up their love, while for their money they exchange their liberty.

Q. Apollo, 'tis time to lay down,
And never more baffle the town

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with your learning or parts,

And all other arts,
Take this from a couniry clown.
You 'opon God Apollo's been poz'd,

His business is done ;

Both father and son
Could none of those queries unclofe.
This wonderful strange unto me,

God Apollo, the SUN

Should own he's undone
By not answering those Gentlemen three.
Now, Apollo, no more blame the Pope,

Who out of thinfallible chair is,
Since your Godship's own self cannot cope

With answering all manner of queries. Then how can you, 'bis fons,

All nature's fecrets Thom, When your bright father's felf

Does not the causes know?

A. Of being quite poz’d, you accuse us, "And would (if you knew how) abuse us,

Whilåt all you do smatter,

Is wide from the matter,
As if only sent to amuse us.
One question for four you mistake

In last monthly paper,
On which

you

so vapour,
And might as well four hundred make.
The Querfst demanded to-niow
What th four questions were

That ne'er
Which we must have been 'wizzards to koow.
To see, we give you light,

Which yet you will not prize ;
Except we find you brains,
And furnih

you
with

eyes.
The following question was sent by the fame author.
Q. Apollo, from you the reason must come,
Why men at their bottles drink o'er the left thumb;

Now

did appear,

Now if from the Sun, then from thence #t Hoes follow,
A drunkard must be the wife God Apollo ?
4. What! come to us, when newly pozd?

Was ever fuch ia fpark?
But only fancying we'd lay down

To find bim felf i'th' dark.
But now to your question, which at the fame time,
It hath little season, háth something of thime:
Must Apollo be drunk, 'caufe fuch 'follow his light,
As fools follow wille-4-wife in the nigkt?
If braying, Sir Long-eats, Thould after you pafs
On the road, we as well may conclude you an afss
Q. We starvelings frequently can boat

That with Duke Humphrey we have din'd;
Tet unacquainted with our host,

Who is to hospitably kind.
If you will tell us, who's the man

That does fo very often treat us,
We will endeavour, if we can,

That you may there as ofren meet %s.
A. To our Sixth Henry, that great Peer

Was uncle, generously inclin'd
To entertain gueits all the year,

Where at full boards they daily din'a. Intomb'd in Paul's, thither repair'd

Such as walk'd dinnerless the streets, To please themselves how they had fard,

And chew the cud of former treats. We'll meet you there, Sir, at his grave,

So civil your request appears :
This favour we would only crave,

Your patience for fome fixty years.
Q. Art Thou the same, fublime Apollo, tell,
Whom fables once in Delphos made 'excel?
If.fo, I pray, .a Chriftian when become?
Or haft been exorcis’d by church of Rome?
And if to fhun that devil-hrenring See,
Thou strivft.to fix in Englija liberty ?

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A. Apollo always will Apollo be,
And loves to shine in British liberty,
But never tells the cause to busy men like thee.

Q. What makes a wit be often poor?
And

what the greatest beauty whore ? Since this may husband gain by feature, And that out-wit his fellow-creature ?

A. Want of sound sense, his wit to use;
The last grows by temptation loose.
Q.
This
query

more. I'll lay before ye,
Pray is Apollo WHIG, or TORY?.
Since I efteem ye men of skill,
( For so are all who've wit at will.)
Your ansper will thus much denote,
That as you fay, even fo PU vote.

A. Can you the God, who rules the skics,
A little party-man furmise?
These noble lines came to us among many worse.

Q. Whence believe, your bright fociety's free
From one man's fuftian importunity.

A. For which, kind Sir, our hearty thanks are duc,
Since we can spare an hundred such as you.

Q. If tender years to love may have pretence,
Or boast a wounded heart by, beauty's influence,
7 by admiring-ibo at distance fas,
Receiv'd a wound by Cupid's random shot.
The beauteous nymph bas charms that would inspire.
The coldef breat with ardent love's desire.
But ab! unhappy fate-I'm planted in a sphere,
Unworthy of her notice or her care;
Tet with ungovern’d zeal 1 hug the dart
That gave the wound, tho' tortur'd by the fmart :
It pleasing feemas, but Oh! in vain
I love, tho' sure I never shall attain.

To Phoebus then with lover's wings I fly
For his advice, and hope he'll not deny,
If love like this mout unregarded die?

Your disconfolate Will. Raynard.

A. Honcti

4. Honest friend Reynard, take your lines again,
On lover's wings they strove to mount in vain,
Venus and Cupid join'd may Phæbus move,
Yours want the beauty, tho’ they boast the love.

The Mistake.
S love's bright Queen with pleasing wonder stoods

As

The roving God of love by chance came by,
And strait from twanging bow a shaft let fly;
The Aaming arrow whizzes thro' the air,
And strikes the snowy breast of the celestial fair.
Soon as she felt the tickling pleasure run
Thro' ev'ry vein, she thus bespoke her son,
Unlucky boy, thus to incite love's fire,
And thy own mother wound with fierce defire.
When Cupid heard her speak, the voice he knew,
Strait be grows pale, and tears his cheeks bedew;

Trembling, he cries, fair Celia's charms appear
So much like yours, I vow I thought you her.

-Q. Pray demonftrate that rule in specious arithmetick, that to take away an aff?rmative, quantity, is to add negative, and to, &c.

4. An affirmative quantity denotes the poffesfioa of such a fum, but a negative quantity implies the absence of it, or a debt of such a value. As thercfore, when from my poffeffion of 300 l. the poffeffion of 60l. is taken away, I am then worth 40 l. fo, when to my possession of 100 l. is added a debt which I must pay, of 60l. I am then worth the same 40).

Q. Doctor Heylin positively fays, the Hebrew was not the primitive language, Cosmography, pag. 15. line 1. 4. If you read the passage a second time, you

will find, that while speaking of the language that was usd in common before the confusion of languages, he uses fome fuch expression, whether it were the Hebrew

any other language, which surc can reach no farther than a doubt; but what he positively afferts, is only this, that the Hebrew language was not, as the Jews contend, incommunicably confin'd to the family of

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