3.

English Language -Style.

-Cornet пойде

LEXIPHANE S,

A

DIALOGU E.

IMITATED FROM LUCIAN, AND SUITED

TO THE PRESENT TIMES.

BEING

AN ATTEMPT

ΤΟ

RESTORE THE

TONGUE TO ITS ANTIENT PURITY.

AND TO CORRECT AS WELL AS EXPOSE THE AFFECTED
STYLE, HARD WORDS, AND ABSURD PHRASEO-

LOGY OF MANY LATE WRITERS, AND

OF

PARTICULARLY

Our ENGLISH LEXIPHANES, the RAMBLER.

Whofe ordinary rate of Speech

In Loftinefs of Sound is rich;

A Babylonish Dialect,

Which learned Pedants much affect;
It is a parti-colour'd Dress,
Of patch'd and py-bald Languages:
'Tis English cut on Greek or Latin,
Like Fuftian heretofore on Satin.

ENGLISH

THE THIRD EDITION

MDCCLXXXIII.

#K

HUDIBR.

CORRECTED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR R. FAULDER, NEW-BOND-STREET;

AND J. FIELDING, PATERNOSTER-ROW.