On Popular Ulufions, 107 



ning effaced the letter C, from the infcription of a ftatue 

 of Auguftus. The augurs declared that he would furvive 

 this fign only an hundred days, the number denoted by C, 

 and that he fhould be received among the gods, becaufe 

 ^far the remaining part of the word, denoted a god in the 

 Etrufcan language. Id. § 97. 

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(E) p. 32. See the Cry from the Defart, and Prophetical 

 Warnings of the eternal Spirit by the mouth of his fer'vant John 

 Lacy. There is a well known ftory of this man, who was 

 firft the proteftor of thofe vifionaries, and afterwards a 

 prophet himfelf ; that when fome of them were taken up, 

 he went to the folicitor general, and told him that the 

 Lord commanded him by his mouth to grant a AW/ Profequi 

 in favour of his fervants : the Lord knows very well, re- 

 plied the folicitor general, that it is not in my power to 

 grant a Noli Profequi. 



(F) p. 35. Perhaps this is not quite exadl, for 1 quote 

 Martin from memory, and the refemblance between Virgil 

 and him may be clofcf. Virgil, we fee, owned that his 

 priefl dreamed, but according to Martin, his friend was 

 fuppofed to be awake. 



(G) p. 43. Butler ridicules this among other magical 

 doftrines, in Hudibras's' conference with Sydrophel. 



Th' intelligible world, he knew 

 And all men dream on't, to be true ; 

 That in this world there's not a wart. 

 That has not there a counterpart ; 

 For can there on the face of ground. 

 An individual beard be found. 

 That has not, in a foreign nation, 

 A fellow of the felf-fame faftiion ; 

 So cut, fo colour'd, and fo curl'd. 

 As thofe are in th' inferior world ? 



He 



