his Forefathers, how good _Horsemen_ soever they might have been, yet were _not equally happy in explaining of_) was pleas'd to set it forth by that more full and accurate Circumlocution." He says[124], _The Author_, Dr. _Sherlock, is no doubt a_ Grecian _in his Heart_! And the tenth Chapter of the _Animadversions_ is one continued Banter upon the _Dean_ for his Ignorance in _Greek_ and _Latin_, and even his Inability to spell: All which he _closes_ with saying, "That St. _Paul_'s _School_ is certainly an excellent School, and St. _Paul_'s Church a most noble Church; and therefore he thinks that he directs his Course very prudently, and happily too, who in his Passage to such a _Cathedral_, takes a School in his way." Again, he says[125], "He cannot see any new Advantage that the Dean has got over the _Socinians_, unless it be, that the Dean thinks his _three Gods_ will be too hard for their _one_." After citing several Scurrilities of the Dean[126], (who it must be confess'd, appears therein a great Banterer also of Dr. _South_ and his Performance) the Dr. says, "These, with several more of the like _Gravel-Lane_ Elegancies, are all of them such peculiar Strictures of the Dean's _Genius_, that he might very well spare his Name, where he had made himself so well known by his Mark; for all the foregoing _Oyster-Wive-Kennel-Rhetorick_ seems so naturally to flow from him, who had been so long Rector of St. _Botolph_ (with the well-spoken _Billingsgate_ under his Care) that (as much a Teacher as he was) it may well be question'd, whether he has learn'd more from his Parish, than his Parish from him.--All favours of the Porter, the Carman, and the Waterman; and a pleasant Scene it must be to see the _Master of the Temple_ laying about him in the Language of the Stairs." To the Dean's Scoff, that _this Argument_, &c. _was worth its weight in Gold, tho the_ Dean _fears it will not much enrich the Buyer_, the Doctor replies[127], "What is that to him? Let him mind his own Markets, who never writes to _enrich the Buyer_ but the Seller; and that _Seller_ is himself: and since he is so, well is it for his Books and his Bookseller too, that Men generally _buy_ before they _read_." In requital of the scurrilous Character of an _ingenious Blunderer_, Dr. _South_ says[128], "He must here return upon him the just Charge of an _impious Blasphemer_, and that upon more Accounts than one; telling him withal, that had he liv'd in the former Times of the Church, his Gown would have been stript off his Back for his detestable Blasphemies and Heresies, and some other Place found out for him to perch in than the Top of St. _Paul's_, where at present he is placed like a true Church Weather-Cock, (as he is) notable for nothing so much, as _standing high and turning round_."