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*ivhither all things tend, and wherein all will ultimately* 

 reft, is the fole point of view from whence all things are 

 rightly feen* — And now, farewel ! [He dlfappears.~] 



Numa to Jupiter^] What fayfl: thou to this pheno- 

 menon ? 



Jupiter^ Alk me that fifteen hundred years hence. 



CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE HISTORY OP THJS 

 LEARNED. 



One of the good effects of the found philofophy 

 and the ufeful fciences by which our times are diftin- 

 guiflied, is this, that the idle rage for pompous titles 

 does not fo commonly turn the heads of men of great 

 erudition as it did in the days of Cafpar Scioppius* 

 This famous, or rather this noted man, had certainly a 

 claim to one of the foremofi: places among the great 

 geniufes of his age, if his boundlefs ambition and con- 

 ceitednefs had not made hirri an object for the tongue 

 of flander. He was another Pietro Aretino, only withf 

 .this difference, that the latter did not content himfelf 

 with the empty found of a title for fparing the great. 

 The pope made him a patrician at Rome, and knight 

 of St. Peter; the emperor and the king of Spain $ a 

 privy counfellor ; and the lawful heir of the Ottoman 

 throne, Sultan Jachia, raifed him to the dignity of 

 caunt of Claravalle, and, rifum teneatis amici ! — 

 5 prince 



