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for half a Day, before the left it all which confidered, if there be ever any happy Omens, thefe mentioned feem to be very fair ones, to wit, Portending very aufpicious Times as to Wealth and Power in England, particulariz'd by it's Metropolitan City, which will not have the leaft fhare in it. And 'tis to be hoped, that this Summers Action will go a great way towards it, his Majefty King William, being himself an Agent, and expofing his own own Perfon in Forreign and trange Countries, for the Accomplishment of it, perhaps not unfitly reprefented by the Royal frange Bird. But we leave the event of these things, and their Interpretation, to the Criticks of the Age, who perhaps may make more pertinent Comments upon 'em:

Q. VVhat's the meaning of the word Culprit?

A. 'Tis a Term in Law, appropriated to Criminals, perhaps a Compound of Culpa paratus, or one made ready by his Crime for Trial or Punishment.

Q. VVhy you pretend to fuch frange things, and yet in effect tell the World nothing but what we all know already?

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dictum quod non dictie The World is Learned. with it more fo. T things that can now are little elfe than O with a New Turn; and if this, all the Orators in ftand still, and neither or Lawyers get any m our Athenian Oracle. what one Man knows, does not diffufing know a fort of improving it, the best way; and befi are pretty confident, t very many Questions her of Moment, which we before publickly decide cially in Morality, whi far the moft ufeful Knowledge; and 'twou fhame for us, fhou'd our chief aim in this were to convey under a drefs, Notions of Vert Honour into the Commo and rather to make 'em than wifer, tho' indeed we do both; and canno in the mean while but t rious and Ingenious Spiri feldom take up our Pap they'll find fomething o in't that may both dive pleafe 'em. For the lefs Judges,they have done a can against it already, bu nothing The Paper lives, and is ftill like to in fpite of all their Illand find that reception we will fay the defign t deferves.

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A. There's another of 'em, but we must take the Liberty to fay, that we doubt the Gentleman who propofed it is hardly a fair Reprefentative for all the World; fince he has chofen himself a Parliament Man for the Univerfe, as Q: Why do you troub Trincalo, by his own Vote de-felves and the World wi clar'd himself Viceroy over the

/wering fo many filly Que

publick Accounts of the Tranfactions which the World has feen, has but fmall force for tho' both may in fome Intances be falle; a fecret Hifto

A. Because the World will trouble us, and rever let us alone, unlefs we'll give 'em an Answer, which fometimes we are forc'd to do, as to Beggars, meerly to get rid of them. Berian seems not, generally speakfides, what's filly to one, is not ing, to have that Temptation to foto another; at leaft 'tis very Lying, which thofe have who likely that every one who fends write a Publick Chronicle. any Queftion thinks both him- But fuppofing it true, it would felf and his Queftion as wife as neceffarily follow that it must he that fent this. be past because it is a History of fuch Perfons and Actions, as are fometime fince gone off the Stage; unless any would fancy there's a fort of Mystery in it, for which we can yet fee no Reafon.

Q. Why Sounds afcend?

Q. Whether the Gentlemen of the Athenian Oracle will engage maintain whatever they

A. For the fame Reafon that a Ball does, by Pepercuffion, or a fort of Keflection.The Air being moved by the Sound, (or rather a Sound being made by the Motion of the Air)moves ftill forward till the firit force be fpent, or it meets with fome-to thing that hinders it: Now the first thing it ftrikes against in its circular or quaquaverfal Motion, is the Earth, whence it rebounds, and must afcend into the Air, as was first afferted.

affert ?

4. Yes, if what they affert is Truth and Reafon; if otherwife, they fhall be glad of better information, and when it appears, will very willingly retract their Errors.

Q. Whether the Letters and It having been experienced Story of the Turkish Spy Lyfeveral Perfons, that upon Fiion, or Reality? If pronouncing the Word One,after whether paft, and how long the Fift time theHiccough comes, fince?

never returns.

the Reafon thereof.

Query

A. If all a Fiction, as we are most inclin'd to believe, 'tis yet fo handfomly manag'd, that one may rather fufpect than prove ever writ it, 'tis plain he was exquifitely acquainted with the Oriental Cuftoms and Langua-portunity to try the Matter of ges; he appears a Perfon of clean Sente, Wit, and very good Humour, and has a valuable Collection of History by him. The Objection by fome brought againit it, that many

A. Unless the Querift had fent an Experiment to bring the Hiccough, as well as 'co drive it fo. Who-it away, we know not what to fay of what he advarices. But as foon as we have an Op

Fat, we'll endeavour to find out the Reafon thereof.

Q. In your answer to that Question, Whether a Friendship contracted between fingle Perfons, may continue with the

ther marry, hinting that if it do fo, viz. the fame Zeal, it is unjuft: I demand then, that confidering Friendship is the Marriage of Souls, which is a much ftronger tie than that of Bodies, whether Perfons fo united ought not to continue fingle,rather than break fo facrel a League, and make the deferted party founhappy as fuch a Divorce will certainly do?

4. We think they ought, if they have no prior Obligation to the contrary, tho' there are very few whole Intereft in this cafe will not prove too hard for their Generofity, and tho' itill even here, a high stroke of the latter, which obliges one Friend to die for another, may perhaps oblige him to do more, that is part with a Friend,rather than hinder his happiness. But to But to be ingenuous, the Union of Souls is a pretty thing to talk of, tho' fo very fine,that 'tis near a-kin to the Mufick of the Spheres, too exquifite for our dullSenfes, However, we have granted there may be in fome few, very few Inftances, fuch a thing, and that it does not all depend on Fancy, but has a real Being: Yet fill the Union of Hands is the fureft Hold-faft, as the World goes. The Body is very near akin to the Soul, and whatever Perfons flatter themfelves, will take it unkindly if it mayn't come in for a fhare. Why then may not both be joyn'd,and the Friends be better acquainted with one another than any befides, fince in this cafe the Sacred League has one Article more added, which will be fure to make it la

till Death them do part.

Q. Which is the best way for. one who is willing to ferve her Majefty, when a gentile Poft is vacant, to obtain it?

A. The honeft Gentleman who fends this Question, feems very much in earnest in't: For we have two Letter on the fame Subject, in the last of which he's a little angry we have fo long neglected an Anfwer, which that he may be fure not to mifs, he has directed us where to fend to him (his Name and all) at his Lodgings, near the Peacock in Kings-street, nigh St. James's-Square. Well, 'tis pitty to disappoint him, and therefore we'll put him on the very nearest cut to Glory, and fhow him a Path which if he'll but follow, will make him as great as he wishes.. Let him go find out a Gold-mine, out Villeroy and Boufflers; or which is all one, make them fight; or fink all the French Fleet, or take and bring 'em into our own Harbours. Let him chufe any of thefe Enterprizes, and if he accomplishes them happily, he's certainly a made Man, But to be graver, the way now to be prefer'd, is, ('tis hoped) to be brave and honeft: To love ones Country, and Queen Anne, hate the French, defie them and all their Luydores. To be no Bigot, nor Debauchee, neither Superftitious nor Profane, but to love Religion, andVertue, and Honour ; not to be forward or hafty, to be modeft and patient, obfequious,and induftrious,and humble. If all this fails, there is ftill a laft referve, which will do

better;

Caufe, venture to determine.
But here may come in one "Ob-
fervation relating to the Hearts

better; Live contented in your
own low Sphere, and thank
GOD that Her Majefty can
find fo many better Men to pre-of Animals, which mayn't be
fer before you.

Queft. Whether fo fmall a Creature as a Fly has a Heart; and if it has, who hath the greateft Heart, the Fly or a late King; becaufe a Fly when taken, if you pluck off a Leg, or a Wing will struggle and ftrive, and as much as is poffible fight for its Life, have nothing else to lofe; whereas that Prince loft neither Leg nor Arm in the Defence of his Three Kingdoms?

Anfw. In Anfwer to this merry Question, tho' the World han't had the Happiness to fee any Diffection of that Creature by the Vertuofi made Publick, yet we may fafely conclude a Fly has a Heart, for the Circulation of that Liquor, whatever 'tis, which ferves it instead of Blood, for proper Blood we doubt that and other Infects can't be faid to have, fince no fuch can be found nor discovered by a Microfcope, or otherwife, in di membring or killing them, unless in tuch as are uled to feed upon Blood, which only feem to contain it like ordinary Food in their Bodies, with outany peculiar Receptacles for the fame. But to the Question, about its Heart, and the bignefs of it, we acknowledge, as the Rehearsal, that there is more Shape and Beauty in a Fly than in a Whale; but whether there's more Courage in that Infect than in the Survivor of the two Kings of Brent

ford that Author faith not

unacceptable. The Heart of a Lyon, as we learn from one diffected at Paris, is proportionably larger than any Animals, fix Inches long, and four large towards the Bafis, terminating in a fharp Point: But whether or no the Fly or the Prince lait mentioned may be thought to have the larger Heart, we are fure we have now a Queen who as well as our famous Richard, deferves the Title of Creur-deLyon.

Queft. I defire to know how the Veins and Arteries, of an Arm or Leg Amputated, can be Reunited to continue the Circulation of the Blood?

Anfw. When the Inquifitive Doctor Harvey first afferted the Circulation, this was one of the Objections raised against it by them, who could not prefently admit it then.- They fuppofed an Inoculation of the Veins, with the Arteries, which upon Amputation, never could be reunited fo again, the Controverfie is in Waleus his fecond Letter to Bartholin; but Circulation is perform'a by the Blood pulfed into the Arteries, which as they pals, they Diffeminate their Capilliary Ramifications, into the Parts for Nourishment, like so many Meanders to water the Earth, and drein up all that the Arteries give, more than can be imploy'd in the Nourishment of the Parts, and reconvey it

to the Heart and from thence

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moft probable Method in effecting this Cheat, was a Confedracy betwixt the Stranger and fome Body that knew the Linnen, and the Garret, or elfe the Stranger was fome Perfon in League with the Devil, to whom the Maid subjected her

pulfed into the leffer Arteries again. So that if a Hand or a Foot be Amputated, then the Arteries do not carry the Blood fo far, and confequently the Veins cannot fetch back any Blood from thence; and fo if the whole Arm or Leg were Amputated, the Capilliary Ra-felf by her unlawful Curiofity mifications of the Arteries and Veins go no farther: Yet the Circulation is the fame in the Parts Remaining, for there is no need of Re-union or A-dant of GOD, might very nastomoses, which this Queftion supposes.

and Defire of Gain, without examining by what Means fhe was to obtain it; her wickednefs in coveting to be indepen

well bring the hidden Treasure, and what Linnen fhe had named, under the Power of those whofe Aid fhe required; and had the fpecified that Linnen that was left, no doubt but they had gone all the fame Way

Queft. A Maid-Servant of one of my Relations, ftanding at the Door, a Woman came to her, and pretended to tell her ber Fortune, in order whereunto, fhe was to Crofs her Hand with a piece of Silver, which being Q. In the Year 1686. there done, he told her, that if she laid was fhewn in Southwark Fair, fuch a Sumu of Money under a Black Negro Man, having a one of the Boards of the Garret Child growing out betwixt his Floors over-night; fhe fhould have Breafts, with all the perfect Parts fo much more added to it before of a Man, except the Head: the next Morning; but in ftead Quære, what was the Caufe of thereof, he found her own Mo-fuch a Birth, and after what ney miffing, with feveral pieces Manner, did it receive its Nouof of Linnen, and other Things rishment? which he had particularly named to the Woman before she left her; which were taken out of the Trunk, where there were feveral other things; Quære, after what Manner did fhe Convey them away, and whether he not naming of thofe things that were left, bin dred her from taking them away, being mingled with the Reft?

Anfw. The Queftion fuppofes the Woman a Stranger, therefore unacquainted with the Garret, placing of the Boards, or with the Diitinction of the infeen pieces of Linnen; the

Anfw. The Frame of this Monter, may not unfitly be compar'd to the Workmanship upon a piece of Tapestry, upon which two Perfons are imploy'd, the more Diligent of the Two finishes his Task first, and the more flothful, finding all the Materials fpent, is conftrained to leave his Business imperfect; and faften it to the Other as well as he can: So the Spirits being in too great Abundance to attend the Formation of One fingle Child, undertook Two, and there being not Materials

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