can it be? arm yourfelves; it cannot surely be the ghoft that I in fo legal a procefs have condemned to punishments evermore; I rob no man; Peter's chair is vacant, and who is fo proper as myfelf?

Hoft. Your eminence will excuse my intrufion, but according to our agreement the packet boat is ready with a fine gale for England. You have not a minute to delay.

Taylor. Your holiness's pontifical robes in the most elegant and rich drefs. Will your holinefs be please to grant me the honour to try them on your facred perfon?

Luther. How dare you, firrah, faucy buzzard, robber of the hen-rooft, you clay-faced Swifs, fwarthy pig. I repeat, how dare you, or the like of that, do ye mungey, behave in the manner you do? rot ye, faucy minstrel, common stroller, with your gambols and gallanty-fhow.

Taylor. Your holiness will be pleased, if you think meet, to compofe yourfelf, that your prefent story, which has rather fatigued the immenfity of your perfon, may be a little abated; when, if your holiness will permit to be enticed in a gentle manner to be undreffed, and be difincumbered from the weight of thofe minor robes, after which, and a fmall interregnum, at the wave of your imperial fceptre, your faithful flave will proceed with the most refpectful diligence to enfhrine your moft facred and mighty holinefs, in your pontifical robes, the most elegant, rich, beautiful, fine, nice, charming, and coftly, perhaps, that ever was

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heretofore placed on the facred fhoulder. Amen.

Hoft. Unless you, Sir, immediately put yourself in a condition to fet off in the packet boat, now ready, our contract is void, and fo adieu.

Luther. You, void of all grace, your infolence proves the dregs from whom you are produced, fcum of a filthy neft of piffmires; avaunt, Satan, get thee hence in one moment, be gone, and never prefent yourself before my Imperial Holinefs evermore. Rattle-fnake, the rafcal is abfconded, my vehemence is abated; my friend, proceed to the decoration, in fo doing, no doubt, I fhall appear as the morning fun, springing out on his afcenfion from the arms of lovely Aurora, graced with ringlets of burnished gold.

Taylor. Your Holinefs will vouchsafe to perch one moment whilft we deliver you from your old. and put on your most sumptuous, and gordious drefs; the world will truely declare you the golden Phenix, or none fo pretty, bright Luminary.

Lutber. Go to the ant, thou fluggard, confi der her ways and be wife, that little piffmire puts her back to the burden without flinching, continually accumulates and with vengence attacks all invaders, fhe being wife, is a true copy of myfelf.

Taylor. Your Holiness would wish not to part the two Covenants, but rather clothe Aaron with Peter.

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Luther. Aye, undoubtedly, or the like of that, ye mungey, I fhall be enlarged, look ye, how

graceful,

graceful, and you really think me the Phenix, or the like of that, as the faying is, do ye mungey, that is, the luftre and fingular brightness of this our enlightened age. I will not dispute the matter, but yield my hearty confent. The harmonious jingling of Aaron's bells are delightful, vaftly in imitation, refembling the chimes of Weltminster-Abbey; they are excellently chofen, I value them highly. All things fit and agree exceedingly well. Now, if you have, as you have with the other parts, left a fufficient furplus for the Treble Crown, to pass with ease over Aaron's Cap, I fhall think myself equipped and as richly embellished with thefe brilliant gimcracks, bedecked and bedizened, bedafhed and befpattered, made fine, and as handsomely ornamented and accoutred and far furpaffing the Great Mogul, Grand Turk, Emperors of China, Perfia, and what not. I love a great foul, whofe law is truth, coupled with noble and grand fentiments. Thefe noble qualities, inherent in your lordship, has raifed him to that ftupendous height you now behold. This is the great Jubilee, which commences from this day, and fhall remain one year universally throughout the world. My mouth has pronounced, the decree is gone forth. So be it, or the like of that; I am what I am, do ye mungey, nincompoop.

Taylor. All things fit and agree exceeding Jemmy, and of the very rich and beft materials. Don't your Holinefs obferve all are of the best, and fit like clock-work, Your HoliU 2`

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Luther. All things are of the best, and fit delightfully. You are truly an adept and complete proficient in your bufinefs.

Taylor. As you are fatisfied, I beg the honour to present your Holinefs with my bill; all things are charged in a moft regular manner, and marked prices duely attended to and obferved.

Mofes. Reverend Sir, your Imperial and moft tranfcendant Holiness seems, as the Ifraelites when discomfited by the Philistines, pale and difmayed. Cheer up, the poor Taylor will be glad to cafe your Holiness of the burthenfome contents of your facred Imperial purse. Poor man has a wife and many children that entirely live by his needle. Don't, I pray, at holy year of Jubilee, confine your purse, but give him fomething handfome, as a furplus, to enable him, with his family, to keep your Holinefs's Imperial birth-day. A happy prefage for the poor Taylor.

Luther. Take me to the privy with all speed, or, or, oh, oh, oh,-I am covered with shame, but the fudden illness I was taken with, came upon me fo fudden and unthought of in a moment, through the unexpected alarm from this best of men, that I had not even time to wave my fceptre or untrufs myself. I hope I have not been guilty of ill-manners. The caufe is truly humiliating, and my good and worthy friend, I go down on my knees to obtain pardon.

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Taylor. I require no fuch homage; this befits your character, and not an humble tradesman, who have not a fhilling of my own, and those very merchants from whom I had the feveral materials for the different fuits, both Jewish and Christian, I have made you and your gentlemen here prefent, on your credit as command.. ed, wait at the door for payment and difcharge of their feveral bills. Befides thefe, I have thirty affiftants, the decree being hot and preffing, who have been employed, not only the days, but a great part of the nights, to the prejudice of their healths, alfo, quarrels and difagreements with difturbance to their wives, families, and others, at home and abroad, which demand a fuperproportion of wages and many other urgent extraordinaries for fuch high and fuperlative emblematicals, blazoned and wrought in the most exquifite tafte; fo that, touching the whole, you will find I have scarce a trifling pittance for my poor family.

Luther. I fhall affuredly die, nay, I find myfelf in the jaws of death, my tongue cleaves to my mouth, my teeth chatter and clatter; I find myself in a strong ague, my knees knock together, my eyes are dim, fo that I have not figh, my legs have no ftrength, my heart as a clod of clay, and my whole body is chilled and loft in a labyrinth of frights, dread, and fears; one clatter more or ftrong rat, tat, tat; tat, at, ra, with tumult at the door, must put an end to my existence. O my distracted head and hopele's heart. Alas, a-well-a-day. O death, where fhall I hide myfelf? Two things are my

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