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Show an N A u-fl-wsuwz e Clergy Abuled 11 pieces of Pirgil in Defcription ‘He s all Gold,' Putple «Lflneia' broidery'; an I'T Scarlet, and Em as rich as Nature, Art,an Rhetorick can make him In'fhote To thefed | Folug and Afyla e Rham ‘ad migh "Encid(X nius, whowere all Perfons of Conditiod -and' "ha Confiderable Pofts intl Arm 1t may be thefe"laft were not fifigf Prigffs." Their Funétion was rather P ‘phetick-~Theyinterpreted the Refolutiofl of the Gods, by the voice of* Birds'th Infpection of Sacrifices , and thei Guerer dertire Vererpontif fervationo s Thunder. This madetheir | teiemay Character counted Sacred, and thei Re | oo lation to the Deity particular. And chee loalth fore the Romans ranged them in the Onfi g Il Thus wexfee the ‘admired Homer, and ek Virgil , always ‘treat the Priefts faitly, e of the Priefts and defcrib "them in Circumf{tances o i /Efth}‘la Credit : ¥ 'tis faid that the Inftancesl Gis gr have given are moftly in Names of Fiffioh "and in Perfons who had no Being in the Poet faney: e T anfwer, 'am o concern'd inthe Hiftory of the Relatioh Whether the Mufter s true or falfe, 5 ~all one to my purpofe. This is ceftd had the Priefts been People of fuch fl der Conlfideration 'as our Stage-Foire deavou: r to makei Tthem; they muf t hav b, |