N o 'err,e-Filiu. 8:: compare him to ?neas, (in all other ref'pe&s like his Lordhip) nor apply that of Virgil,
i?z.iFtaque bello dextra,
But this, adds he, is a eircumflance in his Lorcl- fl?ip's fayour, and manifettly gives him the advan? tage. How fo? Does the loftrig of an hand prove a 'i?periority either of courage or ccnduCt.? Or did Virgil, by that expre?on, mean to compliment .g?eas for aot being ?ounded? a thing which may equally happen to the brave? o?cer, or the mo?. arrant coward ? If the tingle article of Ioling. an arm or a leg gives a man the precedence of .?eas, many a poor penhoner at Chel?a College. hath an equal right to it with his Lord?ip. In ?or(, either this wretched tranflator and bold' comp?tor with Dryden, did not under,and the common conSru&ion of h? author; or, through a poverty of invention, was obliged to delbend to the meaneft of quibbles, to furni? out a dull com- pliment to his noble patron. Another of the time growth he makes to the univerfity. An ontor of hi? dignity reflgning bison, rice, and taking leave of his very pattent and ?rtial auditors, might, one fl?ou!d think, have congratuia- lated them on the general harmony that reign'd among them, t}?e apparent reformation of man- ne?, aM va? advancement of learning, which had (of late years efpecially ?) fo evidently rai&d their univerfitgto a degree of reputation beyona that of all others. ? Not a word on't. As if he had bee? in pay to Come new in{urance-o?ce, as he waa formerly to the old play-houfe, he advilcs them to keep dabbling on in mortar, and in mo? elegant latin gives you to know, that in Oxfo.'d there are very able ma?na, and und?Randing Rene. ?tters.
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