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Ye viTcen dames, your nciglibour's pefl, 

 Uiiltfs your tonguea in future reft, 

 Know tluit with all your faults, your fa-te 

 Is the rccl-cha'i/s degrading feat *. 



Memoranda of Lori> Herblrt of Chirburv^ 



This very fingular and celebrated character, whole 

 property and refidence in Montgomery caftle call 

 for a mention of him in this place^ was born 

 in 1583. — During feveral of the firft years of his 

 Mfe he was very puny and fickly ; and he did not 

 acquire the ufe of fpeech for fo long a time^ that 

 Kioft people fuppofed, if he did furvive, that he 

 would be entirely dumb. In his hfe^^ written by 

 himfelf, he fays he could remember that he under- 

 llood what was faid by others, but that he forbore 

 to fpeak, left he Jhoiild utter fometb'mg improper! One 

 of his firft queftions was, he fays, how he came into 

 the world! 



At feven years old it was thought proper that he 

 Ihould be taught to read, and he made fo great a 

 proficiency, that in the courfe of five years he had 

 attained a competent knowledge of the Latin and 

 Greek languages, and of logic. He was, at this 

 early age, admitted a ftudent in Univerfity College, 

 Oxford, Here he obtained uncommon applaufe by 

 his logical difputations, and from compofing his ex- 

 ercifes more frequently in Greek than in Latin. 



* Welfn epigram of William Phyllp, tranflated by Mr, Lloyd, 

 the author of Beaumaris Bay. 



Sir 



