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currvftances the mod loathfome and ofienfive. 

 Excrements the mod grofs and detefted may foon 

 aflume the plcafing verdure of a richly enamelled 

 field, be devoured by the bleating flock, and con- 

 veyed a fecond, yea, a tenth time into the fame 

 ftomach and bowels in the form and fubftancc of 

 the Mem of an innocent lamb. What a mortifying 

 confidcration this to the pride of a prince, who can 

 never be certain that the laft meal he made was 

 nor, and the next will not be, on the excrements of 

 a beggar; or, what is (till infinitely worfeand more 

 difgufting, on the putrid remains of a polluted 

 nymph, who made her lad groans in the horrid 

 manfions of the Lock ! 



Article V. 



TO THE SECRETARY. 



Sir, ' Caverulifi-Square) April 6, 1782. 



ON my fhewing you Mr. Anderdon's anfwers 

 to fome queries I had put to him, you ex- 

 prefTed a defire to have them, that they might be 

 inferted in the fecond volume publifhed by the 

 focicty. I wrote to him for his approbation of 

 your propofal, and inclofe you his anfwer; and 

 I make no doubt but you will comply with the 



terms 



