_ and who must do it? He tells
you with great Modesty and Discernment in the 27th Page, _The Choice of
Hands should be left to him_, and _he would then assign it over to the
Women_, because they are softer mouth'd, and are more for _Liquids_ than
the Men, as he try'd himself in a very notable Experiment. I wonder a
grave, serious Divine, who is so well vers'd in College Learning, should
in Compliment to a certain Lady, whose Breeding and Conversation must
have given her wonderful Opportunities to refine our Tongue, imagine,
that the Two Universities would give up so Essential a Branch of their
Privileges to the Ladies, and take from them the Standard of _English_.
This puts me in mind of _Fontenelle_'s way of Learning a Language, which
he recommends to be by having an Intrigue with some Fair Foreigner; and
beginning with the Verb _I Love, You Love_, &c. It is well enough from
Him, a _Papist_, or _Layman_, but for a Protestant Divine to erect an
Academy of Women to improve our Stile, is very extraordinary and
gallant, and little agrees with the cruel Quotation of the Author of
_the Tale of a Tub_, p. 163.

---- _Cunnus Teterrimi Belli_
_Causa_ ------------

That Excellent Moralist has not been pleas'd to discover himself, nor to
Print his Name, but has set his Mark to his Works, which he has
Embellish'd with new Flowers of Rhetorick, that shew what a Genius he
has for refining Language, and how happily one may use the Figures of
Cursing, Swearing, and Bawdy, which before were entirely exploded. Tho'
we cannot well suppose the Writer of that _Merry Tale_ is any way
related to the Author of the Letter, yet out of my great Zeal to promote
his Project of polishing Us, I must refer to some shining Passages in
that incomparable Treatise, and let the World judge if any Man can be
more fit to Preside in a Society for refining the _English_ Tongue.

[Sidenote: _Tale of a Tub. p. 109_] _Z---nds where's the wonder of that?
By G--- I saw a large House of Lime and Stone travel over Sea and Land.
By G--- Gentlemen, I tell you nothing but Truth, and the Devil broil
them eternally that will not believe me._ If there is any Thing like
this in our Language from the lewdest of our Stage-Writers, I give them
over to Mr. _Collier_ and the Reformers to do with them what they
please. Yet I am inform'd these Florid Strokes came from the Pen of a
Reverend Doctor, who has sollicited lately for a Deanery, and sets up
mightily for a Refiner