96 Terr, e-Filis. N �. I know it is .?n bard thin to make any of my g wary readers balieve that Beaux can be .quarmfomci ?but I can affure them, upon the word and honour of an Engtifl? autl:or, that five or ]ix years ago, rome twenty or thirty of theti? Oxford froarts did ac"tually frighten tl, ree or four poor-fpi?ited foreigners, and kick a t?resbyterian /?a5o? out o? a coffee-houte. My e,?r h?ends thef marts have another very fcurvy trick. Would they be content to be fopptfh and igno- rant thernteives, (which t;:ems to be their tolcliudy and ambition) I could fieely forgive them ? but they cannot forbear laughing at every body, that obeys the flatutes, ancl differs from them i o? (as my cor- ref?onded expreffes it, in the proper diale? of the place) th:t does not cut as bola a bofh as they do. They have fi:?iy, for the molt part, very good a?5?ra?oc?i but when they walk together in bodies, as tl?,ey often do,) how impregnable are their forheads .? They point at every foul they meet, laugh very loud, and whitper as loud as th? hugh. iemme, Jack, there goe? a prig' Let us blow the pulp/up.? Upon which, they fhre him full in the rice, turn him from the wall he paffe; by, and let up an hoO.iaugb , which puts the plain, ravo ?o;'ice oat of countenance, and occa- lions great triumph amongtt there tarodry dq}e. y ?l ?toe $ . There is, I coy. leO. one thing in which theafore- fiidgorvnme? are very courtly and ?ell-br'ed; I meau lvaymg their deists' for you are not to fippote they wea?. :il th!s rich drayery at their o'?vn �ro?cr co?s and ct:argcs i all t?eSx?^?xs in Oxvo? a? e no,'. kioblemei.-', and Gcntleme?-co,n,?o,,er:,, but cb, iefly tvno cannot at3o?d to be t?-,u? =ny !o?:�than their me cers. taylor., J]2oe ma3er:, and pe?ri?ig-mal:er$ will tt�k with ekere; which, wow and ?en ia? three or four years i after
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