Neque fermonibus Vulgi dederis te, nec in Præmiis TULLY. LONDON: Printed. And, DUBLIN Re-printed by GEORGE FAULKNER, T ADVERTISEMENT. HIS Paper is a Sort of Bill of Complaint, begun many Years fince, and drawn up by Snatches, as the feveral Occafions offer'd. I had no thoughts of publishing it, till it pleas'd fome Perfons of Rank and Fortune [the Authors of Verfes to the Imitator of Horace, and of an Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court,] to attack in a very extraordinary Manner, not only my Writings of which being publick the Publick judge) but my Perfon, Morals and Family, whereof to those who know me not, a truer Information may be requifite. Being divided between the Neceffity to Say fomething of Myfelf, and my own Laziness to undertake fo awkward a Task, I thought it the shortest way to put the laft hand to this Epiftle. If it have any thing pleafing, it will be That by which I am most defirous to please, the Truth and the Sentiment; and if any thing offenfive, it will be only to thofe I am leaft forry to offend, the Vicious or the Ungenerous. Many ADVERTISEMENT. Many will know their own Pictures in it, there being not a Circumftance but what is true; but I have, for the most part Spar'd their Names, and they may efcape being laugh'd at, if they please. I would have fome of them know, it was owing to the Requeft of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is infcribed, that I make not as free ufe of theirs as they have done of mine. However I fall have this Advantage, and Honour, on my fide, that whereas by their proceeding, any Abuse may be directed at any man, no Injury can poffibly be done by mine, fince a Nameless Character can never be found out, but by its Truth and Likeness. AN |