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Show .l • "\ - ~· \ •. ...~ '\ '\~ .~.- • ~- '" ·:-:.:.· \! \ ~'- • · t(..~J ,). .\ r 't • ) "" ~~ ,· L • ••• · .' ' • •, .-.J ~- 1..\.. .-..- ' T HE ARGUMENT of the Firft Book. rs~ .Poet, in propoflng his Subject, d!fcdvers .saturn, or · Tune, to be an Enemy to his Hero. 'lbe'! briefly touching the Cauje of his Enmity, hafles into the mirljl of things, and prejents Scriblerus w~th his AJ!ociates traverjing the vafl D efarts of Africa, in que.ft of the Petrified City. Saturn perceiving he has now an opportunity of confummate Revenge, 6y depriving the Hero of his Life ; and, what is f ar more dear to him, his Fame ; prevails on lEolus to raife, by a Whidu:ind, a Storm of Sand o-ver his H ead, and to bury him and his companions at once in oblivion. Scriblerus's Speech; wherein he dijcovers the utmofl magnanimity, and Jcorning fo baje a death, by an unparallel'd prejence of mind, erects a Structure of all his Rarities, and jetti11g fire to it, prepares to throw himfelf amid.ft the flames. The God, taking the Sacrifice of Jo large a Collection as a f ull Submijjion, conjents to /pare his Life; but, to frujlrate his prejent expectations, directs the cloud of dujl to f all on the petrified city, which is thereby buried. Scriblerus, unable A 2 u |