taken in a trap, &c.

But how now Alaz Short for Alazonomastix, the pseudonym of Henry More., what ails you? Have you left me all of a sudden to fall upon an entire kingdom? You have observed an epidemic disease, and you will be an epidemic physician; you will cure a nation by indignation. Be sure in your next writing to give me an account of this disease—in what books or people you have found it—or I shall think your long observation in the kingdom is like your short observations on my book: a lie, and a loud one.

But you go on; you tell us of high-swollen words of vanity, and I tell you, I have found them in your ballad, and you did well to tail original: "tayl" — to append or conclude a piece of writing. it with an interpretation. Now at last you begin to be moral; surely, Alaz, you would instruct us, you who speak of sober truths, motions, cautions, purified minds, and improved reasons. When was your mouth made clean, sirrah term: a contemptuous term used to address an inferior.? Do you live as you preach? No, you are a wealthy beggar; you have all these words, and yet you lack original: "want" — in this context, to be without or to lack something despite having the outward appearance of it. them. But you have become a prophet; you foresee you will be my prisoner, and you petition me for your freedom. Did I not tell you that you were a beggar? But you pre-