ar _disturb'd_ read
than _disturbed_, and _rebuk'd_ than _rebuked_, tho' the Doctor wonders
how it can be endur'd.

How intolerable must those two Lines of _Hudibras_ be to him then, on
more Accounts than one.

_Hence 'tis that 'cause y' 'ave gain'd o' th' College_
_A quarter Share at most of Knowledge._

Where there are almost as many Abreviations as there are Words, and I
question whether the being an _Hudibrastick_ is sufficient to excuse it,
if it is, otherwise inexcusable; perhaps the Reader may not be
displeas'd to see the Lines that follow, which are no great Digression
from our Subject.

_Y' assume a Pow'r as absolute,
To judge and censure and controul,
As if you were the sole, Sir Poll;
And sawcily pretend to know
More than your Dividend comes to.
You'll find the Thing will not be done
With Ignorance and Face Alone:
No, tho' y' have purchas'd to your Name,
In History so great a Fame,
That now your Talent's so well known
For having all belief out grown
That every strange prodigious Tale
Is measur'd by your +German+ Scale,
By which the +Virtuosi+ try
The Magnitude of every Lye, +&c.+_

Which may very well be introduc'd as often as one has occasion to speak
of the late _Examiner_, or any one that belongs to him. Let this Learned
Doctor and his new Academy do their utmost to furnish our Language with
what the _French_ call _Chevilles_, with his _Thoroughs_, _Althoughs_,
and the whole Army of antiquated Words before-mention'd; I can't imagine
Mr. _Dryden_'s Poetry will be in any Danger of becoming unintelligible,
tho' he has us'd Abreviations as much as any Polite Writer; and will
preserve that Character when the Doctor's is forgotten, unless we should
return to our Original Barbarity, as he says we incline to do. He
complains the Refinement of our Language has hitherto been trusted to
_illiterate Court Fops, Half-witted Poets, and University Boys_. He
would have a thin Society, if he should exclude all such from his own
Academy: And if the Choice be in himself, as he seems to insinuate,
I believe the Reformation of our Language would have just as much
success as the Reformation of our Manners, which, 'tis said, none have
more corrupted than the very Reformers. He gives us his Word, That _the
Style of some great Ministers very much exceed that of any other
Productions_. Where I wonder are the Instances of this Excellence? In
Speeches in Parliament, for themselves or oth