influence, I am loft in fpirit. I heartily intreat your philofophy's pardon, of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere, our fifter is no philofopher, neither our Hoft, yet, in vi fion, may cry out, the crab. Forgive, I befeech you, thefe fpiritual interpolations, they unauthorized efcape, and flip from me, as I have often heard my poor father declare, who would not advance a falfity, that he was much hag-ridden, and being told when the hag was on him, to fay, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft, which he faithfully complied with, the next night, when the hag fprung from him, but being upon the watch, he catched hold of her tail and it flipped from him like filk or cotton. At that inftant, his brother being awake, cried out, "Sam, a great cat has paffed through the window." This window was clofe lathed or wattled, left unplaistered, for the light to pass through the fpaces, fcarce an inch. My poor father, God reft his foul, or the like of that, as the faying is, was, until the last twenty years of his life, a rigid churchman; he would not for his life have neglected having the large family table on all and every Sunday throughout the year, regularly placed in the middle or centre of the great hall, as I am now placed, and fixed by joint confent and appointment of the realm and church of England, and you, my dearly be loved in God, another fpiritual flip or escape, or the like of that, as the faying is, but then, and fuppofe, do ye mungey, as a strong Bright Link to reform, fettle and rivet you my herds

in

in one compact, uniform, firm body, like strong fortrefs. But as I was faying, my poor father, God reft his foul, I crave pardon, intruding the fpirit, or the like of that, on your brightness, my poor father would have the table laid out all around, at equal distances, a rich display of the most beautiful common-prayer books and the great Church Bible on a stand for himself as parfon, where all the family, under pain of a hearty drubbing were obliged to affemble and behave with great decorum, until the whole fervice, according to the church of England, by parliament established, was gone through. Some of our books were decorated with a number of cuts, greatly pleafed us children, and made great impreffions on our young minds, of love to Chrift and his commandments, which the others did not, mine, I fuppofe, having none, I found no relish, but diverted myself without being perceived, for fear of a stroke of the parfon's stick, under the table, I being but little was not noticed.

Club. Your eminence was pleased to observe, that the good old parson, your father, God reft his foul, we beg your eminence's forgiveness on our bended knees, for the fpiritual slip that efcaped, as the hag out of the good parfon's your father's hand; but thefe inftances will take place do what we well can to prevent them. You were pleased to mention a change the laft twenty years of the good parfon's life, we befeech you to indulge us.

Luther. You must know it is innate and our family complaint, the love of money. My father,

father, being Cuftus of the parish, decided a matter of theft against the offender or culprit, who brought an action against my father, and having been a fervant of one who influenced the affizes or court, my father was caft, and fined. The end was, the family religion, and prayer-books, &c. were difbanded and totally laid afide. My poor father, from that epoch, became a strong ftickler for the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere, changed the fpirit and religion into ridicule; but whenever he mentioned the affair of the hag, or heard it spoken, he recoiled and became fad, declaring, it was a matter of conviction in which himself was the principle, convinced by an experimental fact, a little before his death, which was upwards of seventy, blind, and no longer a relish for life or money, he feemed to return and acknowledge his God. I will now refume the brightness of our illumination, and think it abfolutely neceffary to give its proper place of deftination on the journals of our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere. Mrs. Midnight and Hoft, will you draw near, and as my fupporters, affift, expose, fhew, and explain, as you have been taught by an unknown hand or influence, this great mystery of the lower face, in which face is difplayed the crab.

Midwife. How can you be fo plaguy nafty, you dirty pig, to expofe your filth? If this be your new philofophy of this your enlightened age and northern hemifphere, it is, I confefs, the most diabolical, imprudent, ignorant, and

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unnatural jargon that ever fince Noah's ark entered the world, your brood of Jackanaps, fimple coxcombs, bewitched to your unnatural luft, what is it you wish to expofe? why, truly, the fruit and punishment of an unnatural connection which I am told reigns predominant in you new philofophers, and which is now convincing, look at it, a venereal of the most black kind, a cancer; and without exaggeration, cancer, fpider, crab; it bears the face the three, or in troth, the cancerated Spider Crab.

Luther. Sit down and write quick, this is a prophecy of the firft magnitude, in which proteftancy and new philofophy are linked, and future harmony and union depend; Spider, emblem of wifdom, the vitals of philofophy, Crab the moft delicious morfel, another, and the most principle clue, which both proteftancy and new philofophy can be united in, being the ground and main purfuit of both religions. Here it is, I will unite them. Cancer, one of the twelve figns of the Zodiac, limiting the fun's extent and tract in cur northern hemifphere, and with her tropical line commands thus far proud luminary, but no farther. In this fupreme fign, Cancer, the fun displays her brightness, brilliancy, luftre, and fuperabundance of all her greatnefs, is force, power, beneficence, and, in Brief, the fulness of bleffings, to the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere, and community at large. My regulations, on my return to the great capital of the world, will be in the moft confpicuous part, fay St. James's or Hyde

Park,

Park, to have erected a magnificent triumphal
arch, fixed upon a point near the furface of the
earth, on which it can be twirled about; fo
that this unparalelled phenomenon, prodigy
and grand luminary of the new philofophy of
this our enlightened age and northern hemi-
fphere, fhall from one to two o'clock, every
Thursday, throughout the year, unless fome
caufe prevent the exhibiting, the display and
full-fraught, fundamental fungency and un-
known novelty unto this our new philofophy
of this our enlightened age and northern
hemifphere. In the centre, over the arch,
fhall be a circular hole, of a proper fize,
fo as to fit my lower face, from whence will be
difplayed the centre of union, as a bright fun,
or full moon, expofed with its treasure, or in-
eftimable jewel, grand link, that unites and
binds in brotherly love, my two flocks, pro-
teftant kids, and philofophic pigs, the treasure
of bewitching delights, Cancerated Spider
Crab, we may, without any impeachment of
our new philofophy of this our enlightened age
and northern hemifphere, call it the wonder of
wonders, mystery of myfteries, great bulwark,
gordian knot of union.

Which fecret knot, like ferpents, twine
And twist in one, both goats and swine.
My elder flock, of pretty kids,
And new-born race of lovely pigs.

The whole apparatus fhall be displayed in the most gorgeous, sumptuous, and fplendid appearance,

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