lucubrations. I will not here give an account o� what various turns of mortification and plealure I we.nt through upon this occafion? but will only ac- quaint my reader with one paf?ge: going into a certain famous coffhe-hou? not t?r t,'om Temple- Bar, I law a chfter of' gentlemen talking together? as loon as I got amongft them. one of them ask'd whether they had ?en the new paper, call'd T err,?- Filius ? To which an eminent 0 x v o R r? profeffor, who was prd?nt, anfwer'd, that he had, and could ?ffure them, upon his aflronom/�al word and ?our, that there was nothing in it, but lies, and impudence, and �currility ? 0 x v o ?t r?, laid he, is a learned and blaretie/3 fociety. What, fiid another gentleman, ate there no abu�es, Sir, no corru?tion?, no frauds, no debauchery, no difloyalty, no perjury', nothing of this nature in Oxford? None, at all, re- plied the learned prolixflor. No, faid the gentleman again ? not in M E a ? o ? college, Sir ? Hum ! why, indeed, quoth hk profeffor?ip upon this, yes, really, I have heard of firange doings there. And ought nor, faid the gentleman, thoii: flrange doings to be correc"kd? Sir, fiid the profeffor, we have nothing to fay to Merton college; we don't look upon it any part of the univerlity ? they are all rank
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