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of them pedants. When these are told, that in France, young fellows famous for their dissoluteness and rais'd to the highest dignities of the church by female intrigues, address the fair publickly in an amorous way, amuse themselves in writing tender love-songs, entertain their friends very splendidly every night at their own houses, and after the banquet is ended, withdraw to invoke the assistance of the Holy Ghost, and call themselves boldly the successors of the apostles, they bless God for their being Protestants. But, these are blameless Hereticks, who deferve to be blown hence thro' the flames to old Nick, as Rabelais says, and for this reason I don't trouble my self about them.
LETTER VI.
