Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland.

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Credit: Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I [ 44 ] This bafe Method of throwing Refledtions is infufferable, and deferves to be anfwered with a Cudgel rather than a Pen; and what makes it the more inexcufable in this Scribler ( _ is, that he never had the leaft Provocation for fo doing. It is not an uncommon Thing for a Perfon, whofe Apprehenfion is darker than Midnight, to take up a Book, and (hew the Levity of his Tafte, and Solidity of his Ig¬ norance, by turning to jeft fome of the moll excellent Thoughts, becaufe he miftakes them for Abfurdities. This Chapter concludes with another Piece of ftollen Goods, the fix laft Lines in Commendation of his Specific for the Green Sicknefs, being taken from a Daily repeated Advertifement of Dr Cam s Elefiluarium Mi~ ■> e rabile, for the Cure of Venereal Diforders, ^ » - * - ' - * ) ’ CHAP, V _J
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