VOLUME THE THIRD
Dixero si quid forte jocosius, hoc mihi juris c*m venia
dabis.—Hor.
—Si quis calumnietur levius esse quam decet theologum, aut
mordacius quam deceat Christianum—non Ego, sed Democritus
dixit.—Erasmus.
Si quis Clericus, aut Monachus, verba joculatoria, risum
moventia, sciebat, anathema esto. Second Council of
Carthage.
To the Right Honorable John, Lord Viscount Spencer.
My Lord,
I Humbly beg leave to offer you these two Volumes (Volumes V. and VI. in the first Edition.); they are the best my talents, with such bad health as I have, could produce:—had Providence granted me a larger stock of either, they had been a much more proper present to your Lordship.
I beg your Lordship will forgive me, if, at the same time I dedicate this work to you, I join Lady Spencer,
