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press, who is therefore emphatically called "the reader."
MR. CROTCHET.
Well, sir?
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
Why, sir, to "the reader" aforesaid, (supposing either of our Universities to have printed an edition of Plato), or to any one else who can be supposed to have read Plato, or indeed to be ever likely to do so, I would very willingly shew these figures; because to such they would, I grant you, be the outward and visible signs of poetical and philosophical ideas: but, to the multitude, the gross carnal multitude, they are but two beautiful women, one half undressed, and the other quite so.
MR. CROTCHET.
Then, sir, let the multitude look upon them and learn modesty.
