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like that of a camel, until all is ventilated. 

 I have feen fo many things of this kind^ 

 that I am concern'd for the young Lady's feel- 

 ings, on this occafion, knowing they muft be 

 great. But ftill, thofe feelings, well delineated, 

 might have as fine an efFed; as Le Brun's 

 Paffions. — I fear, however, my friend Wood, 

 and his prefcriptions, will be in difgrace ; for 



a day or two ago, the learned Dr. 



of St. John's College (the fame to which 

 Mr. Gillyflower belongs), call'd on me for 

 an ointment, to make the hair grow on his 

 horfe's tail ; and talking about Mr, Gilly- 

 flower's horfe, he faid he knew him ; that 

 he had bought him out of the Duke of Nor- 

 folk's Stud. I then told the Dodor of the 

 awkward infirmity he had ; upon which, 

 he faid, he was not a bit furpriz'd, for the 

 horfe was got by Phlegon, and Phlegon was 

 one of the Sun's horfes he drove in his cha- 

 riot ; and that Phlegon and the other three 

 were all got by the winds * -, fo that no 



Wood 



* Natiirum (obferved the Doctor) expellas furea tamen ufciue 

 recurret. 



