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is for us, where so many Hogs are grunting, Camels and Asses braying, Jackdaws cawing, and Magpies chattering? _Al._ But for all that, there are some there that are your Admirers. _Mu._ We know that, and therefore we'll go thither a few Years hence. The successive Period of Ages has not yet brought on that Time; for there will be one, that will build us a pleasant House there, or a Temple rather, such a one, as there scarce is a finer or more sacred any where else. _Al._ Mayn't a Body know who it will be, that shall do so much Honour to our Country? _Mu._ You may know it, that are one of our Priests. There's no doubt, but you have heard the Name of the _Buslidians_, famous all the World over. _Al._ You have mention'd a noble Family truly, born to grace the Palaces of the greatest Princes in the Universe. For who does not revere the great _Francis Buslidius_, the Bishop of the Church of _Bezancon_, who has approv'd himself more than a single _Nestor_, to _Philip_ the Son of _Maximilian_ the Great, the Father of _Charles_, who will also be a greater Man than his Father? _Mu._ O how happy had we been, if the Fates had not envy'd the Earth the Happiness of so great a Man, What a Patron was he to all liberal Studies! How candid a Favourer of Ingenuity! But he has left two brothers, _Giles_ a Man of admirable Judgment and Wisdom, and _Jerome_. _Al._ We know very well that _Jerome_ is singularly well accomplish'd with all Manner of Literature, and adorn'd with every Kind of Virtue. _Mu._ But the Destinies won't suffer him to be long-liv'd neither, though no Man in the World better deserves to be immortaliz'd. _Al._ How do you know that? _Mu._ We had it from _Apollo_. _Al._ How envious are the Destinies, to take from us all desirable Things so hastily! _Mu._ We must not talk of that at this Time; but this _Jerome_, dying with great Applause, will leave his whole Estate for the building of a College at _Louvain_, in which most learned Men shall profess and teach publickly, and gratis, the three Languages. These Things will bring a great Ornament to Learning, and Glory to _Charles_ himself: Then we'll reside at _Louvain_, with all our Hearts. _Al._ But whither are you going now? _Mu._ To _Antwerp_. _Al._ What, the Muses and Graces going to a Fair? _Mu._ No, we assure you, we are not going to a Fair; but to a Wedding. _Al._ What have Virgins to do at Weddings? _Mu._ 'Tis no indecent Thing a
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