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which is as follows, will let the Reader into the full Knowledge of the Design of the Irony, and the manner of Execution. "The License of this Age and of the Press is so great, that no Rank or Quality of Men is free from the Insults of loose and extravagant Wits. "The good Bishop of _Salisbury_ has had a plentiful Share in this sort of Treatment: And now at last, some or other has presum'd to burlesque his Lordship in printing a Speech for him, which none that knows his Lordship can believe ever came from him. "But because it may go down with others who are too apt to take Slander upon trust, and that his Lordship has already been pelted with several Answers to his Speech, I have presum'd to offer the following Considerations, to clear his Lordship from the Suspicion of having vented (in such an august Assembly) those crude and undigested Matters which are set forth in that Speech, and which so highly reflect on his Lordship's self." He has taken the same Method of Irony to attack the said Bishop for his _Speech_ on the _Trial_ of _Sacheverel_, and for a _Sermon_, under this Title, "The Good Old Cause, _or_ Lying in Truth; being a Second Defence of the Lord Bishop of _Sarum_ from a Second Speech, and also the Dissection of a Sermon it is said his Lordship preach'd in the Cathedral Church of _Salisbury_." And this Pamphlet, which is also a continued Banter, begins thus. "No Man has more deserv'd than this good Bishop, and no Man has been more persecuted by various Ways and Means than his Lordship, even to mobbing! But the ugliest and most malicious of all these Arts, is that of putting false Things upon him; to write scandalous, seditious, and senseless Papers, and to affix his Lordship's Name! I was forc'd some Years ago to vindicate his Lordship's Reputation from one of this sort: That Speech had a Bookseller's Name to it of good figure, and look'd something like; but this Speech (said likewise to be spoken in the House of Lords) has no body to own it, and has all the Marks of _Grub_. But the nasty Phiz is nothing to the inside. That discovers the Man; the Heart is false." This same Author has thought fit to attack Mr. _Hoadley_ (since a Bishop) in the way of Banter: His _Best Answer ever was made, and to which no Answer will ever be made_, is by his own Confession a _Farce_; when he says in his _Preface_, "If you ask why I treat this Subject by way of _farce_, and shew a little Merriment sometimes? it was
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