Essays on Wit No. 2
    Hellicon

   , and he rather a drunken than a good companion.

   He talks madly,

    dash, dash,

   without any fear at all, and never cares how he

    bespatters

   others, or defiles himself; nor ceases he till he has quite run himself out of breath; when no wonder, if to fools he seems to get the start of those who wisely pick out their way, and are as fearful of abusing others as themselves: He has the

    Buffoons

   priviledge, of saying or doing anything without exceptions, and he will call a jealous man

    Cuckold

   , a childe of doubtful birth

    Bastard

   , and a

    Lady

   of suspected honor a

    Whore

   , and they but laugh at it; and all

    Scholars

   are

    Pedants


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