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Terre-Filius. N xxxv. r?! re 53nI by which means they kept the poor laity, m great meafure, out of female affe?:ions, and engroflM them to them?Ives. But we have long fincg ihaken off our yoke, ?nd ?mongft other bleffings, which we owe to the fvrmation, I fl?all always elleem it no fmall one, that we may now be as fmug and as fleck, and every way as well qualified to keep the ladies com- Fany, without going to the univerfity, as with my, I think it cannot he deny'd that we have much the atlvantage t?f them? nothing being more common than hear a i'mart ?lamfel re- primand a young �prig of!earning for his rudeneii thus i it is jnfl like your O x v O?D manners. An Oxford fctiolar, in the mouths of molt wo- men of fenfe, is only another word for a wild, ill-brtd, aukward ?nimal; and whatever conquells they might formerly boait of? the chief fayours the recei?'e now are from their laundre es y . .'./]i and bedmakers, or from their daughters, who are the T o.? s 'r s of the tmiverfity, and the only objeeq, of their gallantry. ^11 the conclarion, which I &fire to clraw from this paper, is, that our univerfi'ty froarts are not the fine? gentlemen in the world. TER'