Q. Since Apollo's my friend so far as I know,
I hope at this time he'll shem himself so,
By answering the question which here I have sent,
For which I will give him juftly content :
The question is this, why our Stage is so dull,
For each actor appears (like me) a Numbskul 3

4. All Europe can't shew such performance of partsy
Nor French, nor Italian can match their deserts,,
For action, or motion, for gesture or tread,
For emphasis, cadence, and all can be said.
If this will not serve to secure from reflection,
'Tis not from their fault, but your want of percepa

tion,

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HE God of wine and God of love,

(Supremest of the powers above)
Contending for imperial fway,
And which should win the glorious days
Designing one alone to reiga,
Refolu'd their conteft on a swain.
The God of love his golden dart
Let fly, and hit the shepherd's heart;;
The swain abandoning his sheep,
His fcrip and crook, his food and fleep,
Addresses him to Cloris shrine;
For Cloris now was all divine;
Naught left of human in her nature;
But all a bright cæleftial creaturc.
The God of wine then filld a glass,
In hopes to drive away the lass
Far from his thoughts, yet all in vain,,
He quaffd and smild, but figh'd again..
The fwain was ask'd, the swain confeft:
The passion tronger in his breaft,
But that the wine bad cheard his hopez's
And laid aside the knife and rope.
The God of lave then sneez'd aloud, .
And all the little Cupids bow'd.

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He then let fly another dart,
Which more enrag'd the shepherd's heart.
Then Bacchus gave a flowing cup,
The shepherd Imild and quaffd it up,
The swain was ask'd, the swain confeft,
The passion stronger in his breast;
But now being rais’d to Cloris fphere,
He had discharg'd all grief and fear:
The God of love twice sneez'd aloud,
And twice the little. Cupids bow'd.
The third and last shaft now was sent,
Which less effected than it meant ;
For Bacchus with a flowing bowl
Enlarg'd the shepherd's joyful foul.
The Twain was ask'd, the swain confesta.
The paflion now had left his breast;
He found himself grow all divine,
And Cloris at a distance shine;
Himself the bright coelestial creature,
And she return'd to human nature.
The Bacchanals with loud huzza's
Proclaim their God, whose bowl displays,
Such influence, and gain’d the odds,
In placing man among the Gods.
The God of love withdrew and swore
He never would encounter more
The mighty bowl, but always yield
Whenever that should take the field.

Q. First, in the 6th chapter of St. Luke 23d verse, is said that Dives faw Abraham, yet they say that hell is a place of utter darkness.

2dly, By what means should Dives know Abraham from another, seeing, as all confess, his body is in the grave untill the resurrection ?

3dly, How should Dives speak to Abraham, his body being in the grave ? Can any speak without the organ of the body?

4thly, How should Dives hear Abraham at so great a galth and diftance, as heaven is from bell?

4. Though several exceptions might be made to your interrogatories, it is yet fufficient to observe, that in all parables (of which this is one ) it is abundantly satisfactory, if the purport and deliga of them be exactly correspondent to the true principles of rea. fon. For the ultimate intention is the same to.a. parable, as the moral to a fable. And therefore when Æsop introduces dumb creatures, void of such a degree of reason, as to argue and debate, as using the organs of speech, and the methods of argumentation, you may as well express your admiration, with an; How can these things be !

Q. Pray reconcile these two passages of Scripture ? viz. Mat. v, 16. Let gour light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorifie your father which is in heaven. And Mat. vi. 1. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.

4. Tho' hypocrisie and oftentation should be stu. diously avoided, it is yet rational to suppose, chat our lives and conversations fhould be so exemplary in the light of men, as that our heavenly Father may be glorified thereby. If therefore we are more open in luch particulars as bring glory to God, without lo much as a wink upon our own glory, but more private and retir'd in others, we reconcile the passages in our practice, and make the seeming opposites concenter in a point.

The following questions fent us, with diversos thers, in relation

to the wonderful twins lately brought over from Hungary, we shall succesively answer.

ift.Q. Gentlemen, We doubt not but you who are so curious in your search into all the arcanas of nature, haze been led by, that curiosity, to observe the manner of the wonderful coalition, or union of the twins lately brought from Hungary. You would oblige the publick with an account hereof, since as your writings discover you to be Gentlemen of sense, honour and probity, we can depend on what. you say. We also desire you to shemo what sympathy you. abferve between them?

2d Q. Gentlemen, Your opinion is defor’d, whether each of the twins brought into England bath, a diftin& foul, or whether one informs both ?

3d Q. Gentlemen, Can you give any probaèle reasons. in nature, for the connection of the two female children to be seen in the Strand, or demonstrate their union by any precedents ?

4th Q. Supposing, Gentlemen, that the monstrous spins, nome exposed to view in town, should live to be women, is it lawful for them to marry ?

5th Q. Sirs, if the two female children, to be seen near Charing Cross, should live to be women, do you think it posible for them to bear children ? If so, is it not likely they Mould conceive together. If that may be, How shall each mother know her own child"?

6th Q. Gentlemen. Pray give your opinion, whether the two monstrous children, lately brought into England, must not of necefity die together if not, What will be come of one, when the other dies ?

7th Q. Pray, Gentlemen, what is your opinion, in case one of the twins, now exposed 10 publick view in town, should infringe the laws, by fomething worthy of death, how should it be punish'd, and justice be fatisfy'd, if it cannot be without the death of the innocent ?

To begin with the first, As to the manner of their joyning : And what sympathy is between them.

4. These two children appear no where defective or disproportioned, but in the place of their coali.. tion, or union, which is of the right buttock of the eldeft, with the left of the youngel ; and that union. is so deep, that it penetrates into the capacity of the Abdomen, or lower belly, since it is plain that the end of the Inteftinum redwm, or great gut, as well as the necks of the womb, (and perhaps of the bladder too) are confounded into one; having between themselves. but one common way, for the excretion of urine, and likewise but one fundament : And these two passages are not placed where naturally they. ought to have been, but in the lower part of the two bur tocks that are so join’d together. There appears not :

any

any sympathy between them, being differently affected in their minds and bodies ; the one being fometimes fad, and the other chearful and merry; the one hungry and thirsty, and the other not : the one fick, and the other well ; and one may easily observe by their looks, that the eldest is more healthy than the youngest, the last- baving in all probability receiv'd some hurt by coming into the world in that posture fhe did ; and is likely that by the compression of the head, the brain receiv'd some damage, which has made her subject to convulsive fits, of which the other hath been wholly free ; tho' both were taken ill once of a fever.. Sometimes both have occasion to go to fool together, Ga and sometimes but one, the reafon of which is, that sometimes the irritation is rais'd in those parts which are join'd together, and fometimes above them.

Q. Your opinion, whether one foul informs the two box dies joined together ? &c.

Å. Each hath doubtless a separate foul, fisce their: passions and affections are as different, as if they had entirely separate bodies, free from all coalition or union.

Q. I desire to know why. Some chymical oils fink, and. others swim in water ?

A. The reason hereof proceeds from the different degrees of salt and fulphur contained in them. So the oils of cloves and cinnamon, being stored with those qualities, are observed to sink.

Q. An your Godship pleases, an humble futor addresses you in the most obsequious manner, and superlative degree, acknowledging at the same time, your superabundane and exceffive share of wit, in the folving of all intricate, abstruse and mystical questions, which nature had. cona cealed in her womb of oblivion, had not there arose such an infallible, supernatural, miraculous and never failing fociety, 10 paradigmatize and whetorically to explain ak obftupifging quiddities, to the surprize and astonishment of myriads of South-Britains, at your mighty acatelepfie. After this, the humble offering of one of your greatest admirers, I beg a solution of the following question :

Why