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For to tell you the truth, fhe has not much pelf,
Yet I love her, I fwear, as well as my felf.
And because it is difficult how to get to hers
By writing and looking I only can woe her.
So not having th' advantage of pers'nal addreffes,
What impreffion I've made is nothing but gueffes;
And therefore Apollo this task I must fet ye,
Tell whether or no I'm beloved by Betty?

A. Your lines, fair Sir Amorous, plainly difcovery,
That you are as yet but a fucking young lover,
Or elfe from a look you your fate might furmife,
And folve all your doubts by the fpeech of her eyes:
But fince you are not in thofe myfteries learn'd,
And of a converfe more familiar forewarn'd;
By proxy addrefs her, a confident get ye,

May fhift at a distance your charming young Betty's If the rails at your perfon, but ftill takes your part When you're rail'd at by others, you're fure of her beart.

On the right honourable the Earl of Peterborough's late reception at Court.

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S after a tumultuous stormy night,

In which a thousand images of death

Dire and portentous fright the trembling world,

Whilft wolves, owls, ravens, all the fhames of nature
Revel with boding notes, and blafting breath;.
The god of day arifes, and difpels

The noxious vapours, and with terror drives
That hated tribe, to lurk in caves and dens;
A facred joy fprings up in ev'ry face,
And well-pleas'd univerfal nature fmiles:
Our Hero thus lab'ring beneath eclipfe,
Oppofed by envy, with her armed fnakes,'
Malice, and all the other pow'rs of hell,
At length his virtue (of fuperior force)
Exerts its felf, and quells their impious rage,
Whilft to forc'd plaudits all his enemies
Convert their ineffectual reproach.

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As when indulgent heav'n defigns to show'r
Surprizing bleffings on a favourite;
The object of its love is first expos'd
To various affaults of adverse fate;
Well knowing that an energy divine,
Fixt in the foul, will difingage with cafe
From all the most invidious attempts,
And thereby juftify immenfe rewards:
Ev'n fo the great, the wife, immortal ANNE,
Her foul enlight'ned by a ray from heav'n,
Permitted her great champion for a while
To lie opprefs'd by loads of injury,.
That he, like gold, by ftrong purgative fire
Might rife all pure and glorious to the test.

Ŏ France! how are thy braving pow'rs contemn'd,
When our great Soy'reign can this Hero fpare,
Who once dethron'd thy Philip. Well fhe knows,
If thofe are fent, can't fix thy overthrow,

Here's one in ftore to give the last and fatal blow.

Q. Gentlemen, I must beg your pardon if I make bold to object against the person you have affigned to be the Za chary, mentioned by our bleffed Saviour in St. Mat. xxiii, 35: Since if he be the perfon, our blessed Saviour's, St. James's,

c. blood will not be included in the v αίμα Nxater ;. and therefore I think it most reasonable to affign it to Zachary the fon of Baruch, mentioned and extolled by Jofe phus de bell. jud. 1. 5. c. 1. who was flain in the middle of the temple. The only objection to this is, that is posúvals whom ye flew, can't belong to him, when as he was not flain at that time; which is easily answer'd, if we confider that the aorift may be render'd very fitly. whom ye fhall have flain. And fo Cyprian de Valera renders it in the Spanish Bible whom ye killed; that is, Lays he, fhall kill. Befides 'tis ordinary in prophecies to use use the time pass'd for that to come. Thus Rev. ii. 19. and St. Paul in his first epifle to the Theffal. ii. 16. fays, the wrath of God ἔφθασε is come upon them εις τέλος το utter deftruction; which was writ before the deftruction of the Jews. Nor am I fingular in this opinion which I find agreeable to be the concurrent opinion of the ever memorable

morable and pious Bishop Taylor, in his great exempler, Part 1ft. Sect. 6th. and the venerable and learned Dr. Hammond in his Annot. on the aforesaid verse of St. Mat. to which laft, for a more full and particular account of the feveral perfons fuppofed to be this Zachary, and the objections against them I at prefent refor you. In the mean time, if upon the ftrength of the premiffes you think fit to retract your judgment, I defire you would publish. the reafons, that others may not be deceived.

4. We beg leave to obferve that the argument whereby you would exclude the fon of Jehoiada, namely, that according to our affertion the blood of St. James would not be included in the vengeance specified, can be no rational inducement to us to recede from our opinion; for when our Saviour acquaints the Jews, that they fhall flay his fervants, that upon them may come the blood of even those whom they had not perfonally flain, furely that actual, that immediate guilt which makes them fuffer for a more remote, for an imputed guilt, may be implicitly understood, when not expreffively deliver'd, for to tell. them that they fhould be punifh'd with feverity for the butchery of those whom in the perfons of their progenitors they flew, this were enough to let them know withall that they fhould affuredly fuffer for their own perfonal executions; this, we fay, were enough to inform them of it, tho' the latter had not been propos'd as the occafion of the former. But fince that alfo is propos'd, the information is implied with the greater perfpicuity.

As for Zachary the fon of Baruch, we are humbly of opinion, that he may be reasonably excluded upon thefe accounts.

1. We may gather from a comparison of the feptuagint-tranflation with the Hebrew original, that Baruch and Barachias are two diftinct unconvertible

names.

From Luke xi. 50. we learn, that our Saviour's Zachary was a prophet. But as this agrees not with the fon of Baruch, fo it accurately comports with the

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fon of Jehoiada, of whom we read Chron. xxiv. 20. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Zachariah the for of Fehoiada, the priest, which stood above the people, and faid unto them, thus faith God, why tranfgrefs ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot profper? because you have forfaken the Lord, he hath alfo forfaken you.

3. Zachary the fon of Baruch, tho' reprefented by Jofephus as a good man, was yet an unbeliever, and therefore we cannot be perfuaded that our bleffed Lord: would take fuch notice of a perfon who neglected the neceffary terms under the happy opportunities of falvation.

4. We think it not very probable at least, that he would make fo memorable a remark on one who was a rebel to the Roman ftate, and had therefore difobey'd that command of his, render unto Cafar the things that are Cafar's.

5. Our Saviour speaks to the body of the Jews in general; and therefore, if he means the fon of Bauch, it follows that that unhappy person was flain by the confent of thofe very fort of people to whom our Lord had addrefs'd himself. But Jofephus tells us that he was flain by a party called Zealots, and that too in oppofition to the body of the Jews, whom they treated with great barbarity.

Tho' the first aorift be fometimes used for the fecond future; tho' thus to use it be the more allowable in prophetical expreffions, yet the premiffes, we hope, will determine the word to the time paft..

Q, Mr. Apollo, I sent you a question, expecting your reason, why perfons certainly dye of the third apoplectick fit, and not fo commonly of the first and fecond, and inftead of publishing the question with answer according to manufcript fent you, you flate it (what is the caufe of the apoplexy). Truly, Apollo, I thought you more honourable than to have acted any thing fo derogating from what is generous and fair. I defire as you have glean'd Decker's barbet, and for its procatarctick caufe to fcrutinize a litthe further for the defired account, or else

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Tho' I'm no poet to disgrace, you shall find,

That with fatyrs I'll lafh you before and behind. 4. The contents of your worthy manufcript, good Mr. Querift, you have forgotten; for we had but one letter relating to that distemper, which is now by us, and is fign'd by A. F. only defiring the cause of that diftemper, as alfo the caufe of the colick. As to your prefent notion of a third fit, it is as erroneous. as your memory, few ever living to fee a fecond; for if the first does not prove mortal, it generally leaves an incurable palfey behind it.

Thus your infipid lafh creates no disaster,

Since the fatyr's to flow from a poor poetafter. Q. Gentlemen, Is there any fuch thing as a Sala mander, and the place of its abode ?

A. That there is fuch a creature as the Salamander,' is a truth, notoriously confpicuous to the obfervation of such as travel into Egypt and other eastern coun. tries, where they are found in great numbers; but the common receiv'd opinion, that they live in fire, a notion prevalent, in the thoughts of ancient and modern naturalifts, is an error, founded on their formidable refiftance of the force of that element; which proceeds from the virtue of a mucous humidity both above and under the skin, which for a while endures the flame; but being once confum'd, the creature is like others burnt to ashes.

Q. Gentlemen, I saw on a dial at backney, post vo luptatem mifericordia; and Phoebus more immediately prefiding over thofe time-pieces, I may the more reasonably hope for his explication to his humble fervant Hicrolo giftes.

4. The true fignification of the words is, REGRET follows PLEASURE. This motto is over an hofpital that way, for cure of the French disease.

Q. Why any bird is immediately ftruck dead, if it attempts to fly over the dead fea?

A. A certain bituminous ebullition from the bottom of the lake, which is vulgarly fo call'd, and the noxious fumes and exhalations arifing thence again

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