THE

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LAURENCE STERN, A. M.

Prebendary of YORK,

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Vicar of SUTTON on the Forest,

IND O F

STILLINGTON, near YORK.

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Dixero fi quid fortè jocofius, hoc mihi juris
Cum venia dabis.-

-Si quis calumnietur levius effe quam decet theologum,
aut mordacius quam deceat Chriftianum-non Ego,
fed Democritus dixit-

ERASMUS.

Si quis Clericus aut Monachus, verba joculatoria, ri-
fum moventia, ciebat, anathema efto.

Second Council of CARTHAGE..

The THIRD EDITION..

VOL.

V.

LONDON:

Printed in the Year M DCC LXIX.

To the Right Honourable

JOHN

Lord Viscount SPENCER.

My LORD,

Humbly beg leave to offer you these

my

two Volumes; they are the best talents, with fuch bad health as I have, could produce :-had providence granted me a larger stock of either, they had been a much more proper present to your Lordship.