took different routs, myself, with others, ingrafted in the reformed churches, where our zeal fuffered no controul, and our new flocks heard us gladly; we here inebriated our zeal and flesh, free from fcandal, or offence; our zeal still unfatiated, fome of us took the fecond leap into the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere. Luther. Hufh, all hufh. Let us pray, or the like of that, do ye mungey, as true and faithful church protestants, to the ghost of old Robin Wisdom, who lived in the times of Yore, a great man, who toffed the fcriptures from knuckle to knuckle, and rhyme profe into metre, as the faying is, do ye mungey, nincompoop. Let us pray. Thou once a body, now but air, And fend us, a good lay, For ever, and for aye, For all, and fame. Then, Robin, look behind thee, Left Pope and Turk, do find thee, And now go to bed again. This Father Robin, whose surname was Wifdom, was, perhaps, as you obferve, by his epitaph placed on his tomb-ftone by another great man, a deceased bishop of Norwich. This Robin lies unrivalled, a divine, whose natural gifts I 4 gifts were fongs, glees, and making merriment in our churches, which filled every space with peals of applaufe, which not only with fweet pfalmody tickled the ears of the people, but melted their hearts, that as the oil anointed Aaron's head, run down his beard and fhirt, fo in like fort the balm of pfalmody not only played "Tommy come tickle me" to the ears, but as the faying is, unloofed the purfe ftring, fat many old women on their crutches, that had for many years been bed-ridden, and perhaps through contradictions and many infirmities, that lurk and attend the decrepit; it never I fay, perhaps, came into their heads to remember their double duty to their God and to their paftors. You will obferve, as I was faying, or the like of that, do ye mungey, that this great divine, father Robin Wifdom, who could make and rhyme fcripture quicker than crows fwallow pebble ftones, or King the player talk a fcore to the dozen on the ftage, or theatre, was that, as the saying is, or the like of that, do ye mungey, great luminary that raised our theatre, or place of worship, to the grandeur and preeminence it now difplays over the world. But as I was faying, or the like of that, to return to my ftory, do ye mungey, father Robin Wifdom, or the like of that, was, as I was faying a great divine who changed melancholy into malady, and by rhiming the pfalms raised mirth; fo that his whole character is, " Laugh and grow fat." But then, and fuppofe, or the like of that, as the faying is, do ye mungey, that I have one queftion which will have great weight in the fcale, for deciding on the matter you have have brought before my tribunal; it ever has been a fixed rule inherited from my old relation, old Dr. Tillotfon, with his jack-boots that I have wore ever fince, fo that the hardness of the bull's hide they are compofed of, has raifed and bequeathed me corns as large as turnips; but as I was faying, or the like of that, do ye mungey. A fixed rule I fay and proteft, or the like of that, do ye mungey, if either of the parties brought before me at any time be a papist, he fhall not depart in peace: this is an invariable rule with me of inheritance from my ancestors. So be it, or the like of that, that a papift is actually a wild cat, and to me nothing is more frightening, or the like of that, do ye mungey. Club. Your Eminence will take notice, that the Society of Jefus receixed their commiffion from the papal chair, and made their vows in conformity to their papa's injunctions. To thofe vows the zealots demurred, having tasted the fweets of the flesh, with other material delights, that conftitute our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere. It was thefe great and warlike zealots, putting their neighbours in a weak and feeble ftate or afpect in conceit, raised a fatal war. The matter being thus circumftanced, it dif covered the fociety with their papa, to be papifts, therefore cenfurable. On the reverfe, the zealots demurring agaiuft the person and authority of the Pope, their fovereigns and other powers of the payal chair or hierarchy in 1 dicate a strong prefumption, though not in name; yet are they really, and fubftantially, brethren, of this our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere, and, as fellow-members, your eminence will vouchfafe them refuge, as the hen, under your wing, or, fuppofe, into your fatherly bofom. Luther. But then, and fuppofe, and the like of that, as the faying is, do ye mungey. I will open my mouth in thunder, and put to difmay all gain fayers, arraign the culprit Ganganelli, Sir, the charges you ftand indicted are of a twofold complexion, one or the like of that popish Pope; the other, do ye mungey forfooth, is against the new pigs of the age; your doom I pronounce, look ye hither. On your back you shall lay Poor Gaffer, he is dead, The Red Sea is your bed, Clay cold and chill'd as lead. Waft him thence, fiends of night. Club. Bring bottle and glass, The fentence is past, Old Peter's no more. Sweet liberty, Sweet liberty, Great Luther's philofophy. Cuckolds all of a row, ha, ha, ba. Tol de rol, Cuckolds of a row. Luther. Bring hither the jefuitical delinquents, hold up your hand at the tremendous bar bar of my juftice, and receive as a lenient fen tence, what I fhall pronounce, nincompoops: Your crimes are of a fourfold. nature. First, Your binding your necks to the papal chair; fecond, Your strictly copying and adhering to the fpirit of Ignatius, who often declared, tho' the unbodying the fociety would be the sharpeft dagger to his foul, yet it would be but half an hour. Third, The love of heaven to gain, which you not only in general but in particular contemn every temporal enjoyment, and did not even kick against the papal chair, when the bandage of the brotherhood was unloofed, but accepted your pensions, tho' small, and banishment from the place of your birth with ferenity and refignation to the fentence. Fourth, Your deferting and leaving the finall number of zealots to withstand and charge the whole catholic power, when you ought tooth and nail to have joined the vigorous and warlike part of your body. Suppofe fifty thousand strong call in a million of us proteftants, and as many twice doubled from both Indies, or the like of that, do ye mungey, for thefe and your faults, which are too numerous to recount, your fentence is, You shall be depofited in the heart of the earth, placed in fuch fort that all and every of you fhall fix his right great toe in his left ear, for evermore, or the like of that, do ye mungey; take these culprits to their deftina ion, dark fiends of night, do ye mungey, or the like of that. Now ye are freed from thele malapert gentry, enemies to the good things a a pleaLures which delight and tickle our fancies, or the |