THE INTELLIGENCER. Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Perf. By the Author of a TALE of a TUB. The SECOND EDITION, LONDON: Printed for FRANCIS COGAN, at the TO THE READER. T HE following Productions I met fraggling in a mean Condition, repre fenting the Poverty of their Coun trey by their outward Appearance; but by their Difcourfe they foon betrayed their good Birth and Education. I had the fame eager Defire of communicating them to the Publick, that most of us have of introducing A 2 troducing a Man of Wit into Company, or of the fecond Hand Merit of telling a Joke, when we have not the Senfe to make one. As they wanted nothing but a more genteel Dress to enable them to make their Fortune in England, I have given them the Cloathing of our own Countrey. And now, I doubt not, they will have the good Luck of being admitted to a Lady's Toilet, or the ill one of being clofetted by a Prime Minifter: I fay the ill one, for they describe an unalterable Something, with the Abbreviations of T-D, and that that perhaps may be thought a Reflection on one or other of First Quality and Distinction. Having thus given thefe Effays new Birth, as it were, in a Foreign Countrey, I may claim the Right over them of a fecondary Parent: The real Parent will confirm it, I don't queftion, with the Honour of his own Donation: So the Pope made a Gift of Ireland to Henry VIII. after the King had annex'd it to his own Imperial Tule. THE |