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a place of privilege. And whereas it has been found, that an obligation to fatisfy paltry creditors has been a difcouragement; to men of letters, if any perfon of quality or others fhall fend for any poet or critic of this fociety to any remote quarter of the town, the faid poet or critic fhall freely: pass and repass, without being liable to an arreft.

11. The forementioned scheme, in its feveral regulations, may be fupported by profits arifing from every third-night throughout the year. And as it would be hard to fuppofe, that so many perfons could live without any food (though from the former courfe of their lives a very little will be deemed fufficient) the masters of calculation will, we believe, agree, that out of those profits the faid perfons might be fubfifted in a fober and decent manner. We will venture to affirm farther, that not only the proper magazines of thunder and lightning, but paint, diet-drinks, fpitting pots, and all other neceffaries of life, may in like manner fairly be provided for.

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thofe, that give fo vaft a power to the council of fix (which is indeed larger than any entrusted to the great officers of state) this may be obviated by fwearing those fix perfons of his majefty's privy council, and obliging them to pass every thing of moment previously at that most honourable board.

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MARTINI SCRIBLERI,

Summi Critici,

Caftigationum in Æneidem SPECIMEN.

ENEIDEM totam, amice lector, innumerabilibus pœne mendis fcaturientem, ad priftinum fenfum revocabimus. In fingulis fere verfibus fpuriæ occurrunt lectiones, in omnibus quos unquam vidi codicibus, aut vulgatis aut ineditis, ad opprobrium usque criticorum, in hunc diem exiftentes. Interea adverte oculos, & his paucis fruere. At fi quæ fint in hifce caftigationibus, de quibus non fatis liquet, fyllabarum quantitates, προλεγόμενα noftra libro ipfi præfgenda, ut confulas, moneo.

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