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Gle vedriont Vaué meingé. Pre fe vengé, Venguiu tout 4 préfe. Pr’abouly la Méffe. 
Véon que gle s’éft chongé. Et viré Papiftre, 
Ly quiértet Meniftre.. 
Ma preton quid bon Pattou. N’a poen felou 
De lou rage detretou. Gle sén gauffe & joue, 
Et lou fout la moue. 
Quond gle préfchet do Papau. Tot plen 
de mau, y 
Gl auilion lez ceil én hau. Dizon Vin a lau. 
tre, 
O le grond Apétre! Sie 
Ma dépett qu’eil s’éft viré. Glétt carviré, 
Gla le Cervea tieviré, Dizont-eil, ma féche, 
Quiellé-qui do Préfche. 
VY cré ben mé qu’oléft zeo. Qui font itau, 
Que tot lou dizace éft fai. Qu’o n’éft que 
réyrie, 
Lou préfche-montrie. 
O nsy a poen ton de tomps. Pa fet vinz. 
ons, 
n’ertet cheut de to jons, ' 
, 
Qu’o 
Ma preton netre bon Dieu. N’a pa veguieu, 
Le bon Pere a fouténguieu. Trejo netre 
Eglife 
' Contr’eo & Sebize. 
Y ne trotie bon ny bea. (Petit Troupea) 
Que ve betilé querne Vea Lez Fame & lez 
Home 
En chonton vou Sedrne. 
Prein petit morcedde Poen. Y ne veil poin 
Alle au Préiche fi loin. Ny foire la Ceene, 
La Bedie pleine. 
Ma putou fegre la re. ' Et boune Lé 
De netre Eylize, quicré. E’tre netre Mere, 
Et qu’o la fav crére. 
Vivé-ve don Hwguenat. Fazé lefat, 
Rengé-ve 0 lez Papavi. Et vené a préfle 
Tretou a la Méffe. 
Sequé Montu Cotibi. Mez Bonz-amy 5 
Gla pri le meillou Party. Faze-zon de méme 
Si vezau de l’éfme. 

PROCEEDINGS OF PUBLIC SOCIETIES, 

’ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
FRANCE. 
CLASS of MORAL azd POLITICAL SCI- 
ENCES, reported by CiTIZEN DANNOU. 
ITIZEN MenrTevcre has commu- 
nicated to the Clafs the continuation 
ot a work upon the Geography of Greece. 
He has treated largely of Laconia,: and 
taken efpecial pains to defcribe the city of 
Helos, fo unfortunately celebrated by the 
flavery-of its inhabitants. 
Citizen PAPON is occupying himfelf in 
a work, the {ketch of whicn he has offered 
to the notice of this Clafs. It treats of 
that fcourge which flavery brings in its 
tram, and which fo conftantly reigns upon 
the frontiers of ‘Turkey, and to which 
the general movement, now agitating 
Europe, may offer too favourable an op- 
portunity of enlarging its limits, and ex- 
tending its ravages. The plague ought, 
he obierves, more than ever to engage the 
attention of philofophers, and to excite 
the vigilance of governments. What are 
the means of combating, or of reftraining, 
this fcourge? Such is the inquiry C. 
Papon makes the foundation of this re- 
fearch. In retracing the origin of. the 
plague, the author obferves, that Egypt 
was ignorant concerning it, during the 
period of its glory and happinefs; that 
is, when the arts and the fciences rendered 
the banks of the Nile the moft fertile and 
the molt populous of any on the earth. It 
was in Europe, and efpecially in Italy, 
that this {courge was indigenous and en« 
demic. We behold. it ravaging the Ro- 
man territory twenty-five times during 
the firft five centuries of the republic, and 
remark it becoming more rare during the 
other two, in proportion as civilization 
advanced. It re-appeared under the laft 
emperors, re-commencing with them the 
ages of barbarifm, and devatiating for a 
coniderable time the fineft European 
countries, until the epacha when the rege- 
neration of the arts came to extinguifh the, 
feeds of this contagion a jecond time, or 
at leaft to confine it to the uncultivated 
coalts of Africa. He concludes the ade 
dre(s he makes the inftitute, by faying, 
** Tt will be, without doubt, fufficient for 
Egypt not to reje€i the knowledge “and 
lights which are brought her, in order to 
deliver herfelf in her turn from this horri- 
ble calamity ; and it will be aygreat and 
confoling {peétacle, to behold the warriors 
and philotophers of France traverfing dif- 
tant countries, driving ignorance, tyranny, 
and all the plagues before them.” 
Citizen ToULONGEON read the preli- 
minary difcourfe to a work on the epochs 
of the revolution. To write the hiftory 
of one’s own time, and efpeciaily at the 
time of revolution, is, the author himfelf 
obferved, a hazardous undertaking, and 
of extreme difficulty. But having confi- 
dered how far this hitlory, written with a 
{erupulous impartiality, may afford uleful 
leffons even to our cotemporaries, and to the 
actors in fcenes which itis wont to expole, 
Citizen Toulongeon concluded that the 
advantages 
