176 APPENDIX. you have by far out-done me: for I will defy the worft of my enemies to ?.x,,r one inttance where I have, in fo bitter a manner, inveigh'd againfi any Gentleman, for no other reafon than pure- ly to wreak a litde t'?leen, and be/patter the I do not fay that you dej,r'gned to tkrve me in this fighal manner; for, as lobrevved at the begin- ning of there remarks, the i?fi?t?'ciency and elufion of one particular ttatute, in which you fancy your tilf aggrieved, tiem to be the burthen of your whole i?ook, from beginning to end. ^11 your comphints turn upon this head; but, in the great hurry of your zeal, there is �carcely an enormity in the univerfity? which you have not ]ugg'd in as a cont'equence of this infuffi'cienq or cluff'on, though they evidently flow from other caufis. Thus we may juftly fay of your book, without prejudice or partiality, that you/&m to be edly m the wrong, in your main pofition, as well as in the fa&s which you have brought to fupport it, and inadvertently in the right in almolt every Perhap,, after all, you will objec�at I have mirinterpreted 7our thoughts, and deduced conl'e. qwuences which never cntred into your heart5 to hich putpole you will quote a great many plm- fib!c purges out of your I:ook. It ma 7 be lb,, in- deed ? but, even in that care, I can fee no reafon that I have to ask your p,'u'don, fince, however? ! may ,have injured your thoughts, I am lure that i have not wrefted your veor?ls, which are evidently on my faie, whatever your heart may be; nor are you the firit who has really wrote a satire, whil? he was intending a Panegyric& But however this :,.-as brought to pati, whether ?rittingly or urmittingly, i am certainly obliged to }:ou for t?ing up the cudgels in my defence,
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