cant every thing I had reported to their difadvantage. He put me in mind, and be quoted the first chapter of Joв for his authority, that, wherever there is an affembly of faints (and fuch his brethren of the ROSY-CROSS are to be esteemed) SATAN will come among them. He acknowledged, that in the college of the ROSICRUCIANS all the vices, I mentioned, viz. hypocrify, pride, avarice, and ambition, are always to be found: but as these are fins of the DEVIL, they ought to be entirely charged to his account. He added, that the ROSICRUCIANS, when they are first elected into the order, abound with virtues of all kinds, and are generally overstocked with learning: But,before they can be confirmed, and take their titles, they must suffer themselves to be put into a limbec of a particular shape, but contrived. trived to receive them very commodioufly. Here they remain three days, until all their virtues, and sometimes a great quantity of their learning, are diftilled into small vials, which are then hermetically fealed, and delivered into the hands of the INTENDANTS of the PAPER MILL, or the ARCH-PRIESTS of HERCULES; who never permit thefe vials to be afterwards unfealed, or opened, or any part of their contents to be returned to the original proprietors, unless upon very extraordinary occafions, and when it may be for the fervice of the state.----I was ill edified by this discourse (which was drawled out into the length of a fermon, tho' I have abridged it in a few lines) and as little pleased with my ROSICRUCIAN, as with my RABBI, and therefore I made my my bow, and left him without replying one word. AND now, after duly weighing every thing, I think it will be my beft method to address myself to our ROYAL SOCIETY. There are many members of that learned body, who have measured the terrestrial globe to an inch, and have made great advances towards a discovery of the longitude: And, as there are moreover fome among them, who are the most fagacious antiquarians in the world, this PAPYROPOLITAN region cannot poffibly be unknown to them: although it may perhaps lie hid in all our maps, under an AFRICAN Lion, or a Sea Monster, or, what I mostly fufpect, under another name, As for my part, I am so true an ENGLISHMAN, and entertain fuch patriotic sentiments, timents, that, if this great SOCIETY, OF the SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIANS, or any, other eminent mathematicians, philofophers, or divines, fhall be able to determine the place of the globe, which is inhabited by the PAPYROPOLITES, I am very willing to cede, in due form of law, all the rights, claims, privileges, and emoluments, to which I may be entitled, as a first discoverer, and content my self with the honour of preferring the public utility to my private interest. INDEX. INDE X. A DVOCATES PAPYROPOLITAN, the moft ufe- AGAMEMNON, King of MEN, and General of the GREEKS. AJAX, compared by HOMER to an ONOCENTAUR, honoris ALEATORY Decrees of a Judge in RABELAIS. p. 79. ALEXANDER the GREAT, intemperate at his meals. Stain'd his character by many wanton acts of cruelty. p. 95: ANTIHERCULEANS, have no more veneration for the PA- Ii |