are therefore due to One who is in a
Direct Male Line, an Immediate Descendant from the
Loins of that Great Man! Let this teach You to value
your Self; this remind the World, how much they owe to
the Family of the BRAUNDS; more particularly to YOU,
who inherit not only the Name, but the Virtues of your
Illustrious Ancestor. I am,

SIR,

With all imaginable
Esteem and Gratitude,
Your very most
Obedient Servant, _&c._

Page 5. line 15, _&c._ for _Barnes_ read _Brand_.

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A

Learned Dissertation

on

DUMPLING;

Its Dignity, Antiquity, _&c._

The Dumpling-Eaters are a Race sprung partly from the
old _Epicurean_, and partly from the _Peripatetic
Sect_; they were brought first into _Britain_ by
_Julius Cesar_; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they
wisely resolv'd never to go Home again. Their
Doctrines are Amphibious, and compos'd _Party per
Pale_ of the two Sects before-mention'd; from the
_Peripatetics_, they derive their Principle of
Walking, as a proper Method to digest a Meal, or
create an Appetite; from the _Epicureans_, they
maintain that all Pleasures are comprehended in good
Eating and Drinking: And so readily were their
Opinions embrac'd, that every Day produc'd many
Proselytes; and their Numbers have from Age to Age
increas'd prodigiously, insomuch that our whole Island
is over-run with them, at present. Eating and Drinking
are become so Customary among us that we seem to have
entirely forgot, and laid aside the old Fashion of
Fasting: Instead of having Wine sold at Apothecaries
Shops, as formerly, every Street has two or three
Taverns in it, least these Dumpling-Eaters should
faint by the Way; nay, so zealous are they in the
Cause of _Bacchus_, that one of the Chief among 'em
has made a Vow never to say his Prayers 'till he has a
Tavern of _his own_ in every Street in _London_, and
in every Market-Town in _England_. What may we then in
Time expect? Since by insensible Degrees, their
Society is become so numerous and formidable, that
they are without Number; other Bodies have their
Meetings, but where can the Dumpling-Eaters assemble?
what Place large enough to contain 'em! The _Bank_,
_India_, and _South-Sea_ Companies have their General
Courts, the _Free-Masons_ and the _Gormogons_ their
Chapters; nay, our Friends the _Quakers_ have their
Yearly Meetings. And who would imagine any of these
should be Dumpling-Eaters? But thus it i