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Luth. Your Reverence's moft devoted. I beg to-morrow, at 10, to be honoured.

Hoft. I hope your Reverence have met the companion you wifhed for, who will reftore the good fellowship, in lieu of Calvin, your late colleague.

Luth. Idiot, blind buzzard, how could you have it in idea, or the like of that, that a long, tall, meagre, flim, thin, lank, fqueezed, lean, pale, and aukward figure, that gives general difguft, wherever he pops his deathly long wizard's face: how could you, buffoon, think, a coincidence. could poffibly cement and fubfift betwixt two two oppofites or extremes, or the like of that; a skeleton and a Hercules; a fearful, timorous, cowardly and fcrupulous nin com poop, and a great, large, ftrong, bold, daring, big, fat, and moft fubftantial ftout man, or the like of that? Who would dare wrestle with an elephant, as f David with Goliah. A niggard, that is frightened, and fhrinks from a tuftle with the Goddess, and one that, braves death, hell, and every horror, to be folded in locks of the beauteous and enchanting Queen. Be gone, or the like of that; do, ye mungea. To-morrow, at ten, I will know who this rogue is.

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Hoft. I told your Reverence, he was from Liege, that is, the College of the English Jefuits.

Luth. I apprehended he was a Church-man, one of his Majefty's liege-fubjects; but I am gone too far to go back. I must receive him to-morrow, according to appointment. Bring

me a mug of brown nappy.

END OF THE SIXTH CONFERENCE.

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SEVENTH CONFERENCE.:

Luther and Priest.

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Pricft. Your Reverence is perfectly right in your conjectures.

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Luth. I will affure your Reverence, or the like of that, as the faying is, I warily watch, to pre vent knavery, or any other illufive arts the crafty may contrive; so that, or the like of that, your Reverence will excufe my ftrictness, as the saying is; do you, or the hike of that, mungea..

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Prieft. I confider your Reverence a candid, open, frank, liberal, fincere, free and generous hearted Gentleman.

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Luth. Your Reverence is exceedingly polite, and am anxious to faddle me with vanity and empty titles, that brings no grift to the mill. If your Reverence, or the like of that, would with to enjoy my friendship and protection, you can with permanency claim it,"

Prieft.

Prieft. Your Reverence speaks mysteriously it will give me pleasure to be brief.

Luth. To come to the point You are one of the late Society, filletted, under the name of Jefuits, by Paul III, and loofed by Clement XIV. both feated, each his turn, in the Chair of Peter,

Prieft. Your Reverence fpeaks with candor. -Luth. No doubt, as men inlso exalted a sphere, in which the Society of Jefus moved, it must be irksome to be disbanded naked, or the like of hat; it being an axiom in law, that the parties be prefent at the Tribunal of Juffice; land, according to the merits of the caufe, let the Judge deli-ver an impartial fentenees! od sloggs. I bett

Pr. The Society was compofed of the fubjects of various Catholic nations, and it was by the fupreme power of thefe nations, who inake up the One, Holy, Catholiek, and Apostolick Hierarchy that they were drove from the lands of their nativity, and with one general voice cried firft to Benedict, who died before the grace cal Jed for was executed. His fucceffor, being deaf to their demand, irfitated the different powers, who confidered the non-compliance to their repeated remonftrance, as a fupineness by no means answerable to the force and weight of their demand, and gave alarming fymptoms, which indicated, that unless their request was domplied with the Church must be rent by schisins and the fchilin had actually began, when Clement XIII was fucceeded by Clement XIV. under whom the commiffion granted by

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Luth, The Society demurred, as I understand, or the like of that, as the faying is, do ye mun gea, and thought themfelves dealt with, very, cas valierly by Clement XIV. who has been ever fince the common butt and ridicule of the So ciety and I heartily join them. To reduce men, who had made it their ftudy to gain riches and a name of refpect in the world; and when, they had, with much labour, obtained their with, to be unfairly robbed of their birth-right, man who was not cordial with them. I now hope, or the like of that, as the faying is, do ye, mungea, that you will, with one confent, put your truft in our Chair of Supremacy, and affure yourfelves, you will be more kindly treated. You have nothing more to do, on your fide, than take the proper Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, and place your Temporals in my hands, where.. they will be as fafe as the Bank. By thefe wife fleps you will have it in your power, or the like... of that, to make the Pope and Catholick Princes, tremble; do ye mungea, and fhall be free to villify, and cut up, or the like of that, as y you would a duck, do your Reverence, mungea, Clement XIV. or Ganganelli, from whom you have received all your injury. Your Reverence mult call on all fides for affiftance and fupport, to raise

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