graceful, and you really think me the Phenix, or the like of that, as the faying is, do ye mungey, that is, the luftre and fingular brightness of this our enlightened age. I will not dispute the matter, but yield my hearty confent. The harmonious jingling of Aaron's bells are delightful, vaftly in imitation, resembling the chimes of Weltminster-Abbey; they are excellently chofen, I value them highly. All things fit and agree exceedingly well. Now, if you have, as you have with the other parts, left a fufficient furplus for the Treble Crown, to pass with ease over Aaron's Cap, I fhall think myself equipped and as richly embellished with thefe brilliant gimcracks, bedecked and bedizened, bedafhed and befpattered, made fine, and as handfomely ornamented and accoutred and far furpaffing the Great Mogul, Grand Turk, Emperors of China, Perfia, and what not. I love a great foul, whofe law is truth, coupled with noble and grand fentiments. These noble qualities, inherent in your lordship, has raised him to that ftupendous height you now behold. This is the great Jubilee, which commences from this day, and fhall remain one year univerfally throughout the world. My mouth has pronounced, the decree is gone forth. So be it, or the like of that; I am what I am, do ye mungey, nincompoop. Taylor. All things fit and agree exceeding Jemmy, and of the very rich and best materials. Don't your Holiness observe all are of the best, and fit like clock-work, Your Holi U 2 nefs nefs will be pleased to declare your royal fenti ments on the matter. Lutber. All things are of the best, and fit delightfully. You are truly an adept and com- / plete proficient in your business. Taylor. As you are fatisfied, I beg the honour to prefent your Holinefs with my bill; all things are charged in a moft regular manner, and marked prices duely attended to and obferved. Mofes. Reverend Sir, your Imperial and moft tranfcendant Holinefs feems, as the Ifraelites when discomfited by the Philistines, pale and difmayed. Cheer up, the poor Taylor will be glad to ease your Holinefs of the burthenfome contents of your facred Imperial purse. Poor man has a wife and many children that entirely live by his needle. Don't, I pray, at holy year of Jubilee, confine your purse, but give him fomething handfome, as a furplus, to enable him, with his family, to keep your Holinefs's Imperial birth-day. A happy prefage for the poor Taylor. Luther. Take me to the privy with all speed, or, or, oh, oh, oh,-I am covered with fhame, but the fudden illness I was taken with, came upon me fo fudden and unthought of in a moment, through the unexpected alarm from this best of men, that I had not even time to wave my sceptre or untrufs myself. I hope I have not been guilty of ill-manners. The cause is truly humiliating, and my good and worthy friend, I go down on my knees to obtain pardon. Taylor. Taylor. I require no fuch homage; this befits your character, and not an humble tradesman, who have not a fhilling of my own, and those very merchants from whom I had the feveral materials for the different fuits, both Jewish and Christian, I have made you and your gentlemen here present, on your credit as commanded, wait at the door for payment and discharge of their feveral bills. Befides these, I have thirty affiftants, the decree being hot and preffing, who have been employed, not only the days, but a great part of the nights, to the prejudice of their healths, alfo, quarrels and dif agreements with disturbance to their wives, families, and others, at home and abroad, which demand a fuperproportion of wages and many other urgent extraordinaries for fuch high and fuperlative emblematicals, blazoned and wrought in the most exquifite tafte; fo that, touching the whole, you will find i have scarce a trifling pittance for my poor family. Luther. I fhall affuredly die, nay, I find myfelf in the jaws of death, my tongue cleaves to my mouth, my teeth chatter and clatter; I find myself in a strong ague, my knees knock together, my eyes are dim, fo that I have not fight, my legs have no ftrength, my heart as a clod of clay, and my whole body is chilled and loft in a labyrinth of frights, dread, and fears; one clatter more or ftrong rat, tar, tat; tat, at, ra, with tumult at the door, must put an end to my existence. O my diftracted head and hopeless heart. Alas, a-well-a-day. O death, where fhall I hide myfelf? Two things are my averfion, averfion, either of which I can never furvive ; to be placed in a gaol, or part with money. Mofes. Your cafe is truly pitiable. How are the mighty fallen? a few minutes before there was no bounds to your arrogance, now cowardly and look as death, pale and ghafly. O mortal, what have you but inconftancy and weakness? Your boafted fufficiency and rare qualities are not inherent in the creature, but wholly depend on the will of the Creator. A few minutes ago you thought yourself infallibly fure of giving yourfelf the confequence of a royal perfonage, as foon as you were equipped in your fham robes of royalty; but alas, behold the change in an inftant. You are a true picture or fimilitude of the weak hypothefis or fabric erected by your boafted relation, and others of the new philofophic tribe, who give. themselves to vicious courfes, and ufe every art to persuade themselves, that the fcriptures are a falacy, contrived and propagated by a fet of knaves, to captivate and make men honest, for the benefit and good order of the state and community in which they live. I have, in my peregrination, met with feveral of these gentlemen, whofe philofophy is, not to be undeceived, not relishing the sharpness of the medicine, to illude which, they have recourfe to the fenfes, with which they erect a standard behind this. They fkulk and fcreen their filthy and beastly lives, not to appease, quiet, or pacify conscience; but to fcar and villify the noble and immortal part, reafon, the principle and quality of the foul. I may truly aver, that, in the courfe of fourfcore years, I never converfed with one of this tribe but was innately an enemy to honour, truth and virtue. But why do I thus reafon? the hypothefis difclofes a megrim, of a ntean, dishonelt, and base extraction. I beg to enquire of these gentry, if, at the hour of their diffolution, they would not have been happy, had they given the preference to an honeft, good, virtuous and honourable life; if they are fo far chafed, not to diftinguish good from evil, or the honeft man from the rafcal, I think we may without degradation confider them as meteors or empty bubbles. To deny the Creator, or pretend to prefcribe limits to his attributes, either in general or particular, is equally principled in folly and presumption. I will take leave of this tremendous fubject, and will fay a few words concerning Mr. Luther, your own concern, relating to yourself and fon. If my information is true, you are in queft of your fon, whose age may be about fourteen years. This boy, at the deceafe of his uncle, became intitled to the family inheritance or landed eftate of 1400l. per annum, net money of Great Britain. His uncle has alfo adopted him his fole heir, by which adoption 20,000l. ftock, 3 per cent. reduced, is also added to the child's eftate, and many other advantages that may accrue, he being heir general of the family. Luther. What do ye fay, or the like of that, do ye mungey, is ftrictly true, and it is wholly by this rafcal's outlawry and difinheriting hinfelf by preferring the catholic religion, altho' |