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which, fee the Transactions of A. Thefe wou'd feem two the Royal Society, the Covers very great Wonders, if the whereof are prefs'd down by Querift had not been fo kind to the Ponderofity of the Water, quote his Author :——— He tells which preffes fo hard upon the us, he had 'em out of Sir Eye-lid, whofe Springs are but H. B's Voyage into the Levant; fmall and weak, that 'tis im- which being well contider'd, poffible for it to raise it felf we believe there is very few against it.- As for the Per-Readers will expect any farther Answer.

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Only, as to the latter of the two, this may be obferv'd our of Dr. Burnets's Letters, that the Story of the River paffing through the Lake Lemain, in the fame manner these two are faid to run,without mixing, is a perfect Fable.By which, if there were any need, we might give a good Guefs, at the truth of the other, without going so far to difprove it.

fon's not being able to fhut his Eyes under Water, we might fay, 'twas the Water got in between the Lids,which hinder'd the Under-Lid from rifing, and joyning the Upper; without which, 'tis impoffible to fhut the Eye. And here wou d be a very fair Account of the Bufinefs But the Mifchief is, that all this while there's not one Word of the Matter of Fact true; and fo there's an end of a fine Hypothefis:For, let any one make the Experiment, as he may eafily do in a Bafin of Water, (much A. Because there's no great more effectually than Sir Ni-Wit, as the Proverb has it, with cholar's learning toSwim on the out a mixture of Madness, that Table-Board, and he'll find that is, he may either put his Eyes fout under Water, and open 'em there; or fhut 'em afterwards, when he puts 'em under open; nay, open and fhut 'em as often as he pleafes.

Q. Why the River Save at Belgrade runs flower at Mid-day and Mid-night, than at other Times, the Caufe being neither Reflux nor Stop of Current by Wind,or otherwife? And why the faid River and the Danube run together, as by Experience they are found to do, and yet their Waters not mix, the Danube

Q. What's the Reason that the greatest Wits are generally Sots.

thofe People who in this Age have refolv'd to be call'd Wits, are fuch as have vait Fancies, which perhaps even without their fo much indulging and giving them the Reins, would be too ftrong for their Reafon; but that being done, whereas they ought rather to take the Couniel of Phebus to his young HotBrains.

Parce puer Stimulis, & fortius utere loris.

They grow entirely Masters,run away with the Poor Wits, as tho e Fiery-mouth'd Fades did

nor

they have spent their Spirits in
whatever wild Actions they
can think on, when all the
brifknefs of Life is run out in
Froth, what remains, muft of
neceffity grow vapid or aiger,
while Reflexion on their Folly
ftupifies and funs them, and
they can find no ease or quiet
to their Minds, but by keep-have one out of Ten?
ing them ftill as much as poffi-
ble in the fame Humour.

like an Anatomist-
wou'd it be very civil to do so,
only we'll fay, that Nourish-
ment being conveigh'd to the
Fetus, Wind may be alfo, and
in Effect is, as we fee by
the Childs being often injur'd
by fuch windy Nourishment.

Q. If any thing Temporal, may be made fure?

A. Yes, what we give away for the Relief of the Brave and Miferable.

Q. I hang'd a Cat lately in my Garden full of Kittens, and when he was a dying, the Kittens cry'd within her. I demand whence they had Air to make that Sound?

Q. Why Should a Blockhead

A. The Querift is beholding for that fharp Thought to Mr. Bays his lait Play, as Bays himself stole the only few good things there from Taff's Poem of the Siege ofFerufalem,who being himself reputed a Blockhead to make a Parsonof, has railed at 'em all with or without occafion ever fince. But let theWit be whofe 'twill, we'll here answer it. The Question is Why fhou'd a Blockhead have One out of Ten? our answer is- For the fame Reason that a greater Blockhead has the t'other Nine, and that is- because the Law

gives it him.

Q. How long do you intend to continue your Athenian Project, fince fome or other may always be putting in fome Nice and Curious Queftions?

4. We have had this, Queftion before, however it being a diverting point, I fhall further add, The more cruel Rogue you for your pains, thus with one Cord to destroy a whole Generation. But to answer your unanswerable Queftion. The truth of Fact we eafily believe,the fame Accident having fometimes happened to Humane Births. But that there is Air in the A. As long as fuch Questions Body, none ever queftion'd-fhall be put in,and perhaps a litWind is a Degree more than tle longer, we having fome Air, or Air compreffed Three Thousand upon the File this we are fure is in the Body- already, expecting their feveral b caule it comes out on't. But Anfwers. this you'll fay, is, not to talk

Q. Thomas

Q. Thomas Knowles, a Widower, has a Son named John Knowles, a Batchelor.

Anne Brown, a Widow, has a Daughter named Sarah Brown a Spinster.

Thomas Knowles the Father And has by her

intermarries with

Sarah Brown the Daughter. So

one Son named

John Knowles the Son And has by her

intermarries with

Anne Brown the Mother.

one Son named

Richard.

Peter.

Or, For the better understanding the Question, take the following

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4. We meet not with any fuch Inttances in Tables of Affinity, nor have we a Denomination particularly for fuch a Relation: It comes near to that of Coufins of the firit Blood, the Relation of a Father and a Son being nearest to that of two Brothers, as also a Mother and a Daughter, as two Sifters, confequently their Iffue nearest to the Relation of Brothers and Sifters Children- This

to

on the aforefaid Reasons must
take place of her Mother, or
her Husband lofe his place-
But we mention not this to
encourage Undutifulness, which
the Law of GOD will not
difpenfe with, altho' even in
fuch an Inverfion it will dispense
with the aforefaid unnatural
Order in Civil Preheminences,
which without a due difcreti-
on, may be an unhappy Novel
of Temptation.

Q. Where the Romish Infallibility refides during the vacancy of the Papal Chair? [This was propofed and answer'd before the laft Choice was finish'd]

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is an odd fort of an Inverted Affinity, for the Son is hereby made Father to his own Father, and his Mother-in-Law, and the Daughter is made a Mother to her own Mother A. Not in the Pope for and Father-in-Law If the the last is in Purgatory, and his Question had been continued, Succeffor not yet in Being. Whether the Mother or Daughter Not in a General Council, for ought to take Place? We had there's now no fuch thing; antwer'd, The Law of GOD not in Pope and General Counand Nature must certainly cil together,because there's neifubject the Child its ther of 'em in nature afunder : Parent, notwithstanding any Not in the Univerfal particufuperinduc'd Civil Law, or Law lar of the Roman-Catholick of Marriage, which in this cafe Church, for the Eldeft Son of is yet more obliging than any it, the most Chriftian King, is we have met with; for the as good as turn'd Turk, and Woman always lofes her worie than all that, is fo unName, and is more properly gracious, to call his Mother married into theMan, than the Whore. Not inthe Cardinals, Man into her, (Woman being for then poor Infability wou'd made for Man) fo that perhaps be torn all to peices there not improperly according to wou'd be French Infallibility athis lait Law,we may conclude, gainft Spam Infallibility, and that both Mother and Daugh-the Zealots Infallibility at Dagter having loft their Names, gars drawing with both.. and Naturaliz'd into New Things being in this Poiture,we Stocks, they muft, according to think it very dangerous to inthe Civil Law, reckon their terpofe in fuch a Battle-Royal Preheminence from the Stock of Creeds, left they fhould all into which they are ingrafted; agree and fall upon us for Medbut the Daughter having lers; however thus much married the Father, who is we'll venture to fay, tho' they be prefer'd to the Son, the up- fhou'd threaten us with the H.

In quifition

Inquifition it felf, that when-been rotten in his Grave many Years before. However, 'tis Injuftice to blame the Poet for this Miftake in Chronology, which he was not oblig'd to take any Care of.

ever the poor Spitch-Cockt Fathers agree where to place this rambling Infallibility, it muit be either K. Lewis's Gold or K. William's Sword will have the Cafting Voice. Q. I find reported in a Hiftoy, that Eneas liv'd in the Daies of Abdon Fudge of If rael, in the Year of the World, 2790, and that Dido was Grandaughter to Ethbaal K. of Sidon and Tyre, whofe Daughter Jezabel was married to K. Ahab; fo that by this Aneas must have liv'd long before Dido, and all the Hiftorians and Poets fabulous, in what they relate of their Acquaintance and Amours; whether of the Two is more

probable?

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Q. Why the Jews made their Idols in the Shape of a Calf, rather than any other Beast.

4. No doubt they learnt in Egypt, where the Worship of an Ox or Calf was notoriously practifed.

Q. Whether Aaron receiv'd le Ear-rings and Bracelets of the Children of Ifrael, and made the Calf of them, of Real Gold? And if fo, by what Means did Moles burn it, and reduce it to Afhes?

A. 'Tis not faid in any Tranflation that we e'er yet faw, that the Calf was reduc'd 4. The best Chronologers to Alhes: It was indeed burnt, and Hiftorians on this Quefti- or thrown into the Fire, and on inform us,- That Etho-melted out of that Form and baal, or Ithobaal, or Futhobaal Shape whereunto Aaron had re(for by all thofe Names he is duced it; and then, as call'd) had a Grandfon, our Tranflation had it, ftamp'd whose Name was Metimus, to Powder; that is, ground or who had two Sons, Pygmalion filed it as fmall as poffible, and and Barca, and two Daughters, fo ftrewed it upon the Water; Eliza or Dido, and Anna. when as the Jews fay, by the That Pygmalion having mur-drinking thereof, the Bellies of thered Sicheus, Dido's Husband, thofe who had been guilty of for the fake of his Treafure, Idolatry immediately fweild, as fuftin and others tell us, and their Faces were difcolour'd, Dido in the feventh Year of much as in the Cafe of the his Reign failed into Afric, Waters of Jealoufie, and thereand built Carthage, which by were discover'd to the Lehappened by Computation an vites. The Hebrew makes it

Et רטחז ער אשר דק. ,Hundred Forty Two Years afe plain

the building of Solomon's Tem-moluit ufque quo comminuit. ple, which was about fome The Septuagint much to the Two Hundred Eighty Nine fame Purpole, KaThλETY AUTOY Years after the Deitruction of AETTÙY, Contrivit cum miTroy,Ground it very fmall,

when Eneas was in nutim,

a bad Condition to make a The Syriack Verfion,-- -LimLover of, for he must have vit eum Lima, quoad commi

04 nutus

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