The Latin is word for word as follows:
Aut agitur res fcenis, aut alta refertur.
Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem,
Quam quæ funt oculis fubjecta fidelibus, et quæ
Ipfe fibi tradit fpectator. Non tamen intus
Digna geri promes in fcenam; multaque tolles
Ex oculis, qua mox narret facundia præfens.
Nec pueros coram populo Medea trucidet;
Aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus.
Aut in avem Progne vertetur, Cadmus in anguem.
Quodcunque oftendis mihi fic, incredulus odi.

The literal translation whereof is thus :
Some ladies do their need before your face:
Some only tell the action and the place.
Our mind is lefs provok'd by what it hears,
Than what the fact before our eyes appears.
In closet dark, your cedar-box be hid;
Not in a parlour fhewn without the lid.
Some actions must be always out of fight,
Yet, elegantly told, may give delight.
Nurse must not hold the child, and cry
When Madam and their friends are o'er their tea.
Atreus, with ladies by, mistakes his wit,

Eee Hee,

In new-born t- -s to run a red-hot fpit.
Miss Progne must not cry, A bird, a bird!
Before good company, and fhew a t- -d.
Cadmus, who voids out worms of monstrous size,
In meer good manners should deceive our eyes;
Muft do his dirty work behind the scene,
And ere he fhews the vermin, wipe them clean.
To bring fuch odious objects full in view,
Though fools may laugh, 'twill make a wife man fpue.

I defire the reader will compare the least exceptionable lines in the Lady's dressing-room, with the least offenfive of these in Horace; although purged by me, as much as could confift with preferving the true sense of the original. Yet this was the great master of politeness in the Roman empire, at the time it flourished moft in arts and

arms.

Horace, you fee, makes ufe of the plain flovenly words, which our decent Irish poet induftriously avoideth, and skippeth over a hundred dirty places, without fouling his shoes. Horace, on the contrary, plainly calleth a spade, a spade, when there was not the leaft neceffity; and when, with equal 'eafe, as well as fignificancy, he might have expreffed his meaning in homely terms, fit for the niceft ears of a queen or a duchess.

I do therefore pofitively decide in favour of our Hibernian bard, upon the article of decency ; and am ready to defend my propofition against all mankind: That, in the ten lines of Horace, here faithfully and favourably tranflated, there are ten times more flovenly expressions, than in the whole poem called The Lady's dreffing-room. And for the truth of this propofition, I am ready to appeal to all the young ladies of the kingdom, or to fuch a committee as my very adversaries shall appoint.

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The ADDRESS of the INHABITANTS of the liberty of the Dean and Chapter of St Patrick's, Dublin *.

E, the inhabitants of the liberty of the

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blin, and the neighbourhood of the fame, having been informed, by univerfal report, that a certain man of this city hath openly threatened and fworn, before many hundred people, as well perfons of quality as others, that he refolves, upon the first opportunity, by the help of feveral ruffians, to murder or maim the Reverend the Dean of St Patrick's, our neighbour, benefactor, and head of the liberty of St Patrick's, upon a frivolous unproved fufpicion, of the faid Dean's having written fome lines in verse reflecting on the faid man.

Therefore we, the faid inhabitants of the faid liberty, and in the neighbourhood thereof, from our great love and refpect to the faid Dean, to whom the whole kingdom hath fo many obligations, as well as we of the liberty, do unanimously declare, That we will endeavour to defend the life and limbs of the faid Dean, against the faid man, and all his ruffians and murderers, as far as the law will allow; if he, or any of them, prefume to come into the faid liberty, with any wicked malicious intent, against the house, or family, or perfon, or goods of the faid Dean. To which

* See an account of the occasion of this address, and the anfwer, in Dr Swift's life, prefixed to vol. I.

which we have chearfully, fincerely, and heartily fet our hands.

The Dean being in bed, very much indifpofed, and not able to receive the faid perfons, dictated the following answer:

GENTLEMEN,

I receive, with great thankfulness, these many kind expreffions of your concern for my safety, as well as your declared refolution to defend me (as far as the laws of God and man will allow) against all murderers and ruffians, who shall attempt to enter into the liberty with any bloody or wicked defigns, upon my life, my limbs, my house, or my goods. Gentlemen, my life is in the hands of God; and whether it may be cut off by treachery, or open violence, or by the common way of other men, as long as it continues, I fhall ever bear a grateful memory for this favour you have fhewn, beyond my expectation, and almost exceeding my wifhes. The inhabitants of the liberty, as well as those of the neighbourhood, have lived with me in great amity for near twenty years; which I am confident will never diminish during my life. I am chiefly forry, that, by two cruel diforders of deafnefs and giddinefs, which have purfued me for four months, I am not in a condition either to hear, or to receive you, much less to return my moft fincere acknowledgements, which in juftice and gratitude I ought to do. May God bless you and your families in this world, and make you for ever happy in the next.

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LETTER

From the GRAND MISTRESS of the FEMALE FREE MASONS,

To GEORGE FAULKNER, PRINTER.

Ixion, impious, lewd, profane,

Bright Juno woo'd, but woo'd in vain.
Long had he languish'd for the dame,
'Till Jove at length, to quench his flame,
Some fay for fear, some say for pity,
Sent bim a cloud like Juno pretty,
As like as if 'twere drawn by painters,
On which he got a race of Centaurs,
A bite, quoth VENUS.

A. B. C. lib. 6. p. 107.

EEING it is of late become a fashion in town,

in writing to all the world, to addrefs to you; our fociety of Female Free Mafons has alfo chofen you for our Printer; and fo, without preface, art, or embellishment, (for truth and a fhort paper needs none of them), our female lodge has the whole mystery as well as any lodge in Europe, with proper instructions in writing; and, what will feem more ftrange to you, with

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