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Luther. All things are of the best, and fie delightfully. You are truly an adept and complete proficient in your bufinefs. Not a mem Taylor. As you are fatisfied, I beg the ho nour to prefent your Holinefs with my bill all things are charged in a moft regular manner, and marked prices duely attended to and obferved.

Mofes. Reverend Sir, your Imperial and most transcendant Holinefs feems, as the Ifrae lites when difcomfited by the Philistines, pale and difmayed. Cheer up, the poor Taylor will be glad to ease your Holiness of the burthen fome contents of your facred Imperial purfe. Poor man has a wife and many children, that entirely live by his needle. Don't, I pray, at holy year of Jubilee, confine your purse, bue give him fomething handfome, as a furplus, to enable him, with his family, to keep your Ho linefs's Imperial birth-day. A happy presage for the poor Taylor.

Luther. Take me to the privy with all speed, or, or, oh, oh, oh,-I am covered with fhame, but the fudden ilinefs I was taken with, came upon me fo fudden and unthought of in a mo ment, through the unexpected alarm from this best of men, that I had not even time to wave my fceptre or untrufs myself. I hope I have not been guilty of ill-manners. The cause is truly humiliating, and my good and worthy friend, I go down on my knees to obtain pardon god yougarh aw tym sbid I tar Taylor,

Taylor require no fuch homage; this befits your character, and not an humble tradefman, who have not a fhilling of my own, and those very merchants from whom I had the feveral materials for the different fuits, both Jewish and Chriftian, I have made you and your gentlemen here prefent, on your credit as commanded, wait at the door for payment and discharge of their feveral bills. Befides thefe, I have thirty affiftants, the decree being hot and pref fing, who have been employed, not only the days, but a great part of the nights, to the prejudice of their healths, alfo, quarrels and dif agreements with disturbance to their wives, families, and others, at home and abroad, which demand a fuperproportion of wages and many other urgent extraordinaries for fuch high and fuperlative emblematicals, blazoned and wrought in the moft exquifite tafte; fo that, touching the whole, you will find I have fcarce a trifling pittance for my poor family.

Luther. I fhall affuredly die, nay, I find myfelf in the jaws of death, my tongue cleaves to my mouth, my teeth chatter and clatter; I find myself in a strong ague, my knees knock together, my eyes are dim, fo that I have not figh, my legs have no ftrength, my heart as a clod of clay, and my whole body is chilled and loft in a labyrinth of frights, dread, and fears; one clatter more or strong rat, tar, tat; taf, at, ra, with tumult at the door, must put an end to my existence. Oomy diftracted head and. hopeless heart. Alas, a well-a-day. death, where fhall I hide myfelf? Two things are my

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averfion, either of which I can never furvive to be placed in a gaol, or part with money.

Mofes, Your cafe is truly pitiable. How are the mighty fallen? a few minutes before there was no bounds to your arrogance, now cowardly and look as death, pale and ghafly.O mortal, what have you but inconstancy and weakness? Your boafted fufficiency and rarë qualities are not inherent in the creature, but wholly depend on the will of the Creator. A few minutes ago you thought yourself infallibly fure of giving yourself the confequence of a royal perfonage, as foon as you were equipped in your fham robes of royalty; but alas, be hold the change in an inftant. You are a true picture or fimilitude of the weak hypothesis or fabric erected by your boafted relation, and others of the new philofophic tribe, who give themselves to vicious courfes, and ufe every art to persuade themselves, that the fcriptures are a falacy, contrived and propagated by a fet of knaves, to captivate and make men honest, for the benefit and good order of the state and community in which they live. I have, in my peregrination, met with feveral of these gentismen, whofe philofophy is, not to be undeceived, not relishing the sharpnefs of the medicine, to illude which, they have recourse to the fenfes, with which they erect a standard behind this. They fkulk and fcreen their filthy and beaftly lives, not to appeafe, quiet, or pacify confcience; but to foar and villify the noble and immortal part, reason, the principle and quality of the foul. I may truly aver, that,

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in the courfe of fourfcore years, I never converfed with one of this tribe but was innately an enemy to honour, truth and virtue. But why do I thus reafon? the hypothefis difclofes a megrim, of a mean, dishoneft, and base extraction. I beg to enquire of thefe gentry, if, at the hour of their diffolution, they would not have been happy, had they given the preference to an honeft, good, virtuous and honourable life; if they are fo far chafed, not to diftinguish good from evil, or the honeft man from the rafcal, I think we may without degradation confider them as meteors or empty bubbles. To deny the Creator, or pretend to pres fcribe limits to his attributes, either in general or particular, is equally principled in folly and prefumption. I will take leave of this tre mendous fubject, and will fay a few words concerning Mr. Luther, your own concern, relating to yourself and fon. If my information is true, you are in queft of your fon, whofe age may be about fourteen years. This boy, at the decease of his uncle, became intitled to the family inheritance or landed eftate of 1400l. per annum, net money of Great Britain. His uncle has alfo adopted him his fole heir, by which adoption 20,000l. ftock, 3 per cent. reduced, is alfo added to the child's estate, and many other advantages that may accrue, he being heir general of the family.

10 Luther. What do ye fay, or the like of that, do ye mungey, is strictly true, and it is wholly by this rafcal's outlawry and difinheriting himfelf by preferring the catholic religion, paltho'

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my brother's Interest had opened the door of the church to great dignities; befides had he kept pace with the family prudence and good morals, or the like of that, and then, and fuppofe, hemight, as the faying is, have fcraped immenfe riches, without being as myself at the expence of a groat, do ye mungey; but the villain placing himself with Ganganelli, like him is become a fcape goat; for he has incurred the malediction, hatred and curse, reprobation and difinherifon, both of us, his blood kindred, and the rights and privileges of a free subject of Great-Britain; which authority and laudable attestation I proved to you in part, at the head of my common prayer book, in a former conference, or the like of that, as the faying is, do ye mungey; and as I was faying, this peft of his family becoming reprobate, that a Roman papift, or the like of that, Mr. Taylor, do ye mungey; and as the story was handed about, took his uncle, who otherwife carried a keen edge, or the like of that, as Mofs caught his mare, good Mr. Taylor, napping, do ye mungey and as I was faying, dear friend, made all fpeed to the Papifts in London, where he, an arch wag, made an acquaintance, and wafted himfelf, tho' a child, on his travels to Douay, where he made ufe of the learning his uncle had inftilled into his quick pate, against the common proteftant Republic, my nincompoop, who lately in your prefence, worthy friend, offended me, hinted, do ye mungey, worthy Sir, Mr. Taylor, or the like of that, as I was faying, that the boy known to Mr. Rabbi Mofes, who

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