Excerpt from Metronariston, or a New Pleasure Recommended, in a Dissertation Upon a Part of Greek and Latin Prosody But there is nothing too ridiculous or too violent for her'to attempt, in the gibes and the' jeers, as well as the rancorous accufations, {he will caft upon him. A pretty fellow, he, indeed, to fit! Up for a Tongue-keeper, and expeet that people fhould, unrewarded, move them, according to bi: fang, forfooth, in the pronunciation of fo many thoufands of fyllables, when there is anatber Tongue-keeper, who, if 'you but humour his fancy, will pay like a king - with a. People's money - for the merely pronouncing an AY or No No, no; no Tongue-keepers for w, who have not the true Glojocoman! She had been told perhaps that i'ma'aoxoyov means a bag, in which tbe Tongues of find-inflrumentr aud Mm], were kept io' gether; and that it is tranflated by the word Bag, in the place, where it is faid, that, He rbat bad t/je Bag, cared not for Mac Poor, and war a Tbigf.
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