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A47451
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Dialogues of the dead relating to the present controversy concerning the Epistles of Phalaris / by the author of the Journey to London.
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King, William, 1663-1712.
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1699
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were a Person very Nice and Exact in your Dress your Table and Apartments I have heard him Madam give such a Description of a Commode from a Satyr of Juvenal that your Ladyship could not have found fault with the Air of it Then he illustrated the Text with the Comments of Lubin Holyday and others to that degree Madam Compagibus altis aedificare Caput Madam Oh charming beyond any thing even of the French Madam Bellamira You are obliging to assist me in this matter for I ignorantly took the Fashion as I found it Calphurnia A Gentleman came one Morning with several various readings upon Vitruvius and from thence perswaded me that the Frame of my Looking-Glass was the most injudicious Piece of Architecture that could be that the Bases were Dorick the Capitals Corinthian and the Architrave perfectly Barbarous for which reason I went abroad without Patches till such Absurdities were entirely Mended and Corrected by his Direction Bellamira I remember in Don Quixote one of my Authors the Marquiss of Mantua when he had sworn to revenge the Death of his Nephew Valdovinos was not to Eat on a Table-cloth till he had perform'd it But was not yours too severe a Mortification for the Ignorance of your Cabinet-maker But Pray Madam who was this knowing Person Calphurnia It was the same great Virtuoso Signior Bentivoglio a Person of the most known Merit then Breathing I did nothing in my Family without his direction He has often taken his Bill of Fare out of Athenaeus and cover'd my Table with the most surprizing Dishes imaginable Ordinary Persons content themselves with modern Soupes but after my acquaintance with him nothing but the Black Lacedaemonian Broth might be set before us He gave the bravest sounding Greek Names from Simon 's Art of Cookery and the Gastronomia such Oulions Groulions Floios and Toios to the end of every thing that it was most charming He made the most delicious Alphiton of the Ancients far exceeding our Hasty-Pudding I remember once at the sight of a Piece of Roast-Beef he repeated such a rumbling description out of Homer of the Beef sent up to Agamemnon that I profess my Lady Cornelia's Children ran away frightned long before the Melimela and Mala Aurea which the Ignorant call the Desert could possibly be set upon the Table Bellamira I profess Madam I had rather have gone without a Desert nay a second Course than have had things with such Hidious Names set before me But Madam do Learned Men trouble themselves about such Affairs as these are Calphurnia Oh! Madam No Man can be a Scholar without being Expert in the whole method of Athenaeus 's Cookery What Quarrels Madam do you think there have been between Grave and Learned Men about spelling a Greek Word that has been only one single Ingredient of a Patty-pan Pray read Athenaeus Madam and you will be convinc'd of it Bellamira Sure Learned Men won't quarrel about Trifles Calphurnia Oh! Madam rather than any thing Why as I have read in several Authors Timothias a Grammarian upon a Dispute concerning a Greek 〈…〉 to a Chechine with the great Scholar Philelphus The old Gentleman lost and his Adversary was so unmerciful as to cut it off and hang it upon his Chair as a Monument of his Victory Bellamira A Cruelty in my Opinion too insulting Calphurnia Oh! Madam I had forgot one thing I most heartily beg your Pardon Bentivoglio one day show'd me the Name of a Pudding in one of Aristophanes his Plays which if it were wrote at its full length would be as long as your Ladyship's Tippet Bellamira I fancy this Outlandish way of furnishing your Table was the reason why Persons of Quality avoided eating with you especialiy having Company that discours'd so much above ' em Calphurnia I was so involv'd in the Greek that I protest Madam I had entirely forgot the necessary Ingredients for Lemmon Cream and Jelly of Harts-horn Bellamira Perhaps that might be the reason you appear'd so seldom in the Park and were so very long before you return'd a Visit that had been paid you Calphurnia My Day for the Ladies was but once a Fortnight but every day for the Virtuosi But pray Madam how did you spend your time and fit your self for Conversation Bellamira Why Madam my own Affairs took up some part of my time Musick and Drawing diverted me now and then I had sometimes a fancy for Work I now and then went to see a Play when I lik'd the Company I went with better than those I usually found there I made my self as easie as I could to my Acquaintance and I have still the vanity to think I was not disagreeable to them and I did not find but if one of us make out in Civility what we want in Learning but we might pass our time well enough in the World Calphurnia If you can satisfie your self with such Trifles I am your Servant Madam and Adieu CHRONOLOGY Lilly the Astrologer Helvicus Lilly WHY as Matters go now with Chronology it signifies nothing what we do There is no value for Exactness To what end have we Studied what becomes of our Decimals Sexagesimals Algorithms of Fractions Parabolisms Hypobybasms Paralelopipeds and Zenzes when we have flung away a Day nay sometimes a Week to preserve the least imaginary part of a Moment What Honours are at last confer'd upon us Father Time may e'en bestow his Hour-Glass upon what Parish-Church he pleases and next Hay-Harvest for want or else diversion Mow his way down from Padington to Cumberland Helvicus Why in such a Passion Brother Lilly Lilly Brother Lilly You make very free with me I am none of your Brother the Great Bentivoglio may indeed call me Brother since the Publication of his Eternal Labours He equals the Chronological Tables that I yearly Publish'd and then he is the most exact Man at the Original of a Sicilian City that amidst never so great variety of Authors He can tell you the Man that laid the first Stone of it There was not a Potter in Athens or a Brasier in Corinth but he knows when he set up and who took out a Statute of Bankrupt against him Helvicus Why this is great Learning indeed Lilly Why so it is Sir Do you know whether Thericles made Glass or Earthen-ware or what Olympiad he liv'd in Helvicus Truly not I but do the Fortunes of Greece depend upon it Lilly Thus you would encourage Ignorance my Brother Bentivoglio and I have Studied many years upon things of less Importance some of which I shall name to you as that Carp and Hops came into England the same Year with Heresie That the first Weather cock was set upon the Tomb of Zethys and Calais Sons of Boreas in the time of the Argonautick Expedition That Mrs. Turner brought up the Fashion of yellow Starch That the Sybarites first laid Rose-Cakes and Lavender among their Linnen That Sardanapalus was the Inventor of Cushions which