His whole Demeanor was formal and ftarched, which adhered fo clofe, that he could never fhake it off in his highest Promotion.

His Lord was now in high Employment at Court, and attended by him with the moft abject Affiduity; and his Sifter being gone off with Child to a private Lodging, my Lord continued his Graces to Corufodes; got him to be a Chaplain in Ordinary, and in due Time a Parifh in Town, and a Dignity in the Church.

He paid his Curates punctually, at the lowest Salary, and partly out of the Communion-Money; but gave them good Advice in Abundance. He married a Citizen's Widow, who taught him to put out fmall Sums at Ten per Cent. and brought him acquainted with Jobbers in Change-Alley. By her Dexterity, he fold the Clerkship of his Parish, when it became vacant.

He kept a miferable House, but the Blame was laid wholly upon Madam; for the good Doctor was always at his Books, or vifiting the Sick, or doing other Offices of Charity and Piety in his Parish.

He treated all his Inferiors of the Clergy with a most fanctified Pride; was rigorously and univerfally cenforious upon all his Brethren of the Gown, on their first Appearance in the World, or while they continued meanly preferred; but gave large Allowance to the Laity of high Rank, or great Riches; ufing neither Eyes nor Ears for their Faults: He was never fenfible of the leaft Corruption in Courts, Parliaments, or Minifters; but made the most favourable Conftructions of all publick Proceedings: And Power, in whatever Hands, or whatever Party, was always fecure of his most charitable Opinion. He had many wholesome Maxims ready to excufe all Miscarriages of State;

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Men are but Men; Erunt vicia donec bomines; and Quod fupra nos, nihil ad nos: With feveral others of equal Weight.

Ir would lengthen my Paper beyond Measure, to trace out the whole Syftem of his Conduct; his dreadful Apprehenfions of Popery; his great Moderation towards Diffenters of all Denominations; with hearty Wishes, that by yielding fomewhat on both Sides, there might be a general Union among Proteftants; his fhort, inoffenfive Sermons in his Turns at Court, and the Matter exactly fuited to the present Juncture of prevailing Opinions; the Arts he used to obtain a Mitre, by writing against Epifcopacy; and the Proofs he gave of his Loyalty, by palliating or defending the Murder of a martyred Prince.

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ENDOWED with all thefe Accomplishments, we leave him in the full Career of Succefs, mounting faft towards the Top of the Ladder Ecclefiaftical, which he hath a fair Probability to reach, without the Merit of one fingle Virtue; moderately stocked with the least valuable Parts of Erudition terly devoid of all Tafte, Judgment, or Genius; and in his Grandeur naturally chufing to hawl up others after him, whofe Accomplishments moft refemble his own; except his beloved Sons, Nephews, of other Kindred, be not in Competition; or laftly, except his Inclinations be diverted by thofe who have Power to mortify or further advance him.

EUGENIO fet out from the fame University, and about the fame Time with Corufodes: He had the Reputation of an arch Lad at School, and was unfortunately poffeffed with a Talent for Poetry, on which Account he received many chiding Letters from his Father, and grave Advice from his Tutor. He did not neglect his College-Learning; but his chief

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chief Study was the Authors of Antiquity, perfect Knowledge in the Greek and Roman He could never procure himself to be chof low; for it was objected against him, that written Verses, and particularly fome whe glanced at a certain Reverend Doctor, fan Dullness; that he had been feen bowing to as he met them in the Street; and it was that once he had been found dancing in a Family, with half a Dozen of both Sexes.

He was the younger Son to a Gentlem good Birth, but fmall Eftate; and his Fat ing, he was driven to London, to feek his He got into Orders, and became Reader rish-Church, at twenty Pounds a Year; was by an Oxford Friend to Will's Coffee-Ho quented in those Days by Men of Wit; fome Time he had the bad Luck to be distin His fcanty Salary compelled him to run Debt for a new Gown and Caffock; and then forced him to write fome Paper of Humour, or preach a Sermon for ten S to fupply his Neceffities. He was a Times recommended by his Poetical Fr great Perfons, as a young Man of excelle who deferved Encouragement; and red thousand Promifes: But his Modefty, and rous Spirit, which disdained the Slavery nual Application and Attendance; alwa pointed him; making room for vigilant who were fure to be never out of Sight.

He had an excellent Faculty in prea he were not fometimes a little too refined to trust too much to his own Way of thin reasoning.

hardly drawn to attend upon fome Promiling Lord; he received the ufual Anfwer, that he came too late, for it had been given to another the very Day before. And he had only the Comfort left, that every Body faid, it was a thousand Pities, fomething could not be done for poor Mr. Eugenio.

THE Remainder of this Story will be dispatched in a few Words. Wearied with weak Hopes, and weaker Pursuits, he accepted a Curacy in Derbyfhire, of thirty Pounds a Year; and when he was five and forty, had the great Felicity to be prefered by a Friend of his Father's, to a Vicaridge worth annually fixty Pounds, in the most defert Parts of Lincolnshire; where, his Spirit quite funk with those Reflections that Solitude and Difappointments bring; he married a Farmer's Widow, and is ftill alive, utterly undiftinguished and forgotten; only fome of the Neighbours have accidentally heard, that he had been a notable Man in bis Youth.

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ROM frequently reflecting Courfe and Method of educati in this and a neighbouring K with the general Succefs and quence thereof, I am come to termination; That, Education is always t in Proportion to the Wealth and Grandeur Parents; Nor do I doubt in the least, th whole World were now under the Domini Monarch (provided I might be allowed where he should fix the Seat of his Empire) Son and Heir of that Monarch, would be educated Mortal that ever was born fince ation: And, I doubt, the fame Propor hold through all Degrees and Titles, from peror downwards to the common Gentry,