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None ſo deaf as thoſe who will not hear.
A true humourous Tale, and Proverb
exemplified in the following merry
Story of Mr. James Spiller, Co-
median of facetious Memory.
AS the art of true humour is very
difficult to attain, and very rare-
ly met with, I ſhall preſent my read-
ers with the following quotation on
that ſubject from the Spectator.—‘A-
mong all kinds of writings, there are
none in which authors are more apt
to miſcarry than in works of humour,
as there is none in which they are
more ambitious to excel. It is not an
imagination that teems with monſters;
an head that is filled with extravagant
conceptions, which is capable of fill-
ing the world with diverſions in this
nature; and yet, if we look into the
productions of ſeveral writers, who ſet
up tor men of humour, what wild ir-
regular fancies, what unnatural dif-
