4 6 TERR-FILIU$. N �IX. /-/? Tibi erupt .,firees.--.-- Mong? all the various arts and fciences which are taught at our univerSPies, the antient art of ?u?,m? ha5 been always reckoned fo confidetable, that the two learned riflers ha?,e had almol? as xvarm contells concerning their fuperiority in this branch of learning, as concerning their antiquity and ?ecedence. I wonder the author of the art of PuNlq?lg(; does not mention the uni?'erfitie? with more particular re�peO: upon this occaflon ? fince they have always Been its fond hurling mothers, and brought it into that flouri%ing flare, in which, amidtt the decay of other forts of l?rning, it at prefent continues. It is a 'fufficient proof how much this 1tupendous art was formerly tkidied at the univerfiries, that all fermons, before the Reftoration, are embe}ifl?ed in every page with great numbers of the moll exqui- fire Puss i and a man, who was not blefs'd witla �this happy talent, could not make a popular preacher, x?or .get any preferment i for cur wife forefathers
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