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DIALOGUE.

Imitated from LUCIAN, and fuited to
the prefent Times.

BEING

An Attempt to reftore the ENGLISH Tongue
to its ancient Purity,

And to correct, as well as expofe, the affected Style,
hard Words, and abfurd Phrafeology of many late
Writers, and particularly of

Our ENGLISH LEXIPHANES, the RAMBLER.
And bald Ca

Whofe ordinary rate of Speech,

In Loftinefs of Sound is rich ;
A Babylonifh Dialect,

Which learned Pedants much affect:
It is a parti-colour'd Dress,

Of patch'd and py-bald Languages.
'Tis English cut on Greek or Latin,
Like Fuftian heretofore on Satin.

HJDIBRAS.

The FOURTH EDITION, COnected,

DUBLIN:

PRINTED FOR J. WILLIAMS, No. 5,
SKINNER-ROW, 1774-

To the RIGHT HONOURABLE

GEORGE,

LORD LYTTELTON.

MY LORD,

N looking round me, throughout the world, for fome diftinguished character, to whofe protection and fostering care, I might commit the following performance, which ftands fo greatly in need of it, not only as it is the production of a nameless author, but because it combats many inveterate prejudices of the age and nation we live in, and likewise attacks fome reputations established fo firmly in the opinions of moft men, that they may be thought in no danger from any, I could!

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