bring in Priests of the Church, and let them pray, over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith frall fave the fick man and the Lord fhall raife him up: and if he be in fins, they fhall be forgiven him.

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Mof. An outward and vifible fign,

An inward and fpiritual grace,

The two requifites marked out in your Common-Prayer-Book for making a Sacrament, are fo fully complied with by the Apostle, that nothing can be added, nor loop-hole for cavil.

Luth. I have gone beyond paft bearing, and can hold forth not the twinkling of an eye longer; you are accustomed to ftarving, which disease Iabhor; your looks betray your deplorable state. I feel convulfed; the violence of a craving ftomach might be compared to a man befet by wild beafts; on the reverfe, a full belly is a heaven upon earth; a bleffing of bleffings, and a great bleffing With heart-felt joy we have finished the facraments, and the: Confe-: rence is over. Leave me; I befeech. mercy on me.

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Mof. Reverend Sir, why fo complying to a monfter that devours you? An avaritious appetite should be moderated and kept in subjection; or you level yourself with the beasts that have no understanding.

Your goggle eyes ftare, your face ghaftly,
Your greafy corpfe appears quite nalty.

Adieu.

Luth.

Luth. Happy riddance; I fhall now revive;
What have you here? I feel all alive.
Weefel-face, vain, meagre crew;
Who wither without merit,
But me, feated at my stew,›
Preach out Old Luther's fpirit.

Hoft. I acknowledge it an extraordinary difh.
In the middle you fee the old domeftick.
Luth. My darling meat, the old raven.
Hoft. Round-ball that flanks the crow, is the
head of another domeftick, the old ram cat.

Luth. Both out of the common, happy man!' Hoft. The environs, you will note, is interlaced, or enchained, by fix old he-rats.

uth. All to a tittle, in obedience to my orders. Hoft. The different entrails of these several creatures, with herbs, fpices and a cabbage, compofe the pap, or paste, that fills the veffel.

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Hoft. Who raps at the door? pray come

Waiter. An English Gentleman, just arrived from Liege in his journey to London, defires to know what English families are in town.

Luth. What is his figure, Ninny-hammer? Waiter. The Gentleman is plain, tall and meagre, a long flender nose, lank hair, and takes much fnuff.

Hoft. I will ftep, and make enquiry.

Luth. A full hofpitable purfe and jovial companion, you may lawfully admit; but miferly niggards, exclude my prefence. Do, you mùngea, or the like of that, as the faying is.

Hoft. I have fpoke to the Gentleman; I fancy you will prove him a Son of the Church...!! Luth. Aye, peradventure one of my old potcompanions, Does he appear full-fledged; you fean my meaning; not his perriwig?

Hoft. I understand your meaning by your leer and fquint, with attendant skew or skree lip; he feems no fwindler Iwith all travellers were free from legerdemain. İz

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Luth. I am upon nettles: I cannot avoid neftling. I fit upon eggs, and fhall bring on the gripes unless I am relieved. You fay the parfon, or the like of that, do ye mungea, is plain, tall, meagre, long and flender nofe, lank hair, and divers fuch ftuff. Pray, does this plain dealing appear in his garb, his face, or what other auguration do you draw your furmise from, or the like of that? Do, ye mungea? Is the nofe ftraight, hooked, or turned cock a hoop? Is it pointed, or a nub at the end? Lank hair, and a Parfon's bufhy wig do not chime well, unlefs fome mishap has obliged him to decamp, and probably pafs under a borrowed drefs. I am egged on to diffect the rogue, but am afraid of an incumbrance, a knave I compare to bird-lime, a fpider's net, or fly-trap, to entice the unwary; but it is not eafy to take old birds with chaff, or the like of that, as the faying is. Do, ye mungea, invite him in, or the like of that. I fhall fift my little urchin; do, ye mungea.

Prieft. I am your Reverence's most humble fervant.

Lugh.

Luth. I am extremely obliged to you. I fuppofe, or the like of that, as the faying is, do, ye mungea, that you are intitled to the honour of Reverence. I am your Reverence's molt devoted, or the like of that, as the faying is; do, your Reverence, mungea.

Prieft. Your Reverence do me much honour. I am an Ecclefiaftic, much at your service.

Luth. What pleafantry from our convivial. co-operators; I hope, you left all well?

Prieft. Extremely well, praying every bleffing. to friends and acquaintance.

Luth. I much defire to be fifty years back, to join the dance of Cuckolds-rout; them were truly happy times, pure and undefiled; when fimplicity and vigorous nature infufed into the heart the amorous injection of love's holy water. The fhepherd, or the like of that (not like the hireling who quits his flock) gently lies down, and fondles his pretty lambkins, with genial warmth, of fpiritual careffes, as the saying is, or the like of that; do ye, mungea.

Prieft. Your Reverence have been an old practitioner in the wars of Venus, and appears to have finifhed your carreer with robuftness, whereas in general the clients of this alluring dame feldom quit the field without displaying fome mark of her efteem, either the lofs of a nole, or fome part of the out-fcouts, or van; and fometimes the trunk (if with life is fo fhattered, feared, and maimed, that it retains very little resemblance of the human fpecies.

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Luth.

Luth. Hah! bab! ba! ha! You are a nincom-poop! fi-del-de-dea; a downright ninnyhammer, mungril, 'poor puny pup. Where, in the name of Jeffrey, have you imbibed and fucked infipidity, and loft in the horrors of pufillanimity. I could venture three fkips of a loufe's liver, you are no Oxonian; neither have you breathed the air of Cambridge. How did you divert your time in the circles of London, or the like of that? Not to fummons of tattoo, when the whiftle is founded for rendezvous; do you, mungea; driving the rounds of the divine Garden, which gallants you into the arms of the Goddess, and fometimes finishes in a conflict, under the banner of the God Mars, either by a fettoo of cudgelling or fifticuffs, that for many years was my lot, being a Hercules, and well trained at Father Broughton's theatre, or the like of that; fo that I may avow, I long fubfifted by the ftrength and dexterity of my fift; as I ftood foremost in all quarrels that required the like of that; and, for my wages, my money-concerns were discharged by our fpiritual fraternity.

Prieft. You have been a general warrior, and often, no doubt, been obliged to mount the pulpit, with fwelled eyes and bruifed face, a pretty fpectacle, to preach the meeknefs of the gospel. Luth. Who raps, or the like of that? Buzzard, come in; do, yoù mùngea.

Hoft. All things are ready, Sir, and upon table.

Prieft. I pray your Reverence's excufe.

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