"There was very lately a Lad in the _University_ of _Oxford_, who being of very pregnant and ready parts, and yet wanting the encouragement of preferment, was by his poverty forc'd to leave his studies there, and to cast himself upon the wide world for a livelyhood. Now, his necessities growing dayly on him and wanting the help of friends to relieve him, he was at last forced to joyn himself to a company of _Vagabond Gypsies_, whom occasionly he met with, and to follow their Trade for a maintenance. Among these extravagant people, by the insinuating subtilty of his carriage, he quickly got so much of their love and esteem, as that they discover'd to him their _Mystery_: in the practice of which, by the pregnancy of his wit and parts, he soon grew so good and proficient as to be able to out-do his Instructours. After he had been a pretty while well exercis'd in the Trade, there chanc'd to ride by a couple of _Scholars_ who had formerly bin of his acquaintance. The _Scholars_ had quickly spyed out their old friend among the _Gypsies_, and their amazement to see him among such society had well-nigh discover'd him: but by a sign he prevented their owning him before that Crew: and taking one of them aside privately, desired him with his friend to go to an _Inn_, not far distant thence, promising there to come to them. They accordingly went thither, and he follows: after their first salutations, his friends enquire how he came to lead so odd a life as that was, and to joyn himself with such a _cheating beggerly_ company. The _Scholar- Gypsy_ having given them an account of the necessity which drove him to that kind of life, told them that the people he went with were not such _Impostouirs_ as they were taken for, but that they had a _traditional_ kind of _learning_ among them, and could do wonders by the power of _Imagination_, and that himself had learnt much of their Art, and improved it further then themselves could. And to evince the truth of what he told them, he said, he'd remove into another room, leaving them to discourse together, and upon his return tell them the sum of what they had talked of: which accordingly he perform'd, giving them a full account of what had passed between them in his absence. The _Scholars_ being amaz'd at so unexpected a discovery, earnestly desir'd him to unriddle the _mystery_. In which he gave them satisfaction, by telling them, that what he did was by the power of _Imagination_, his Phancy _binding_ theirs, and that himself had dictated to them the discourse they held together, while he was from them: That there were warrantable wayes of heightening the _Imagination_ to that pitch as to bind anothers, and that when he had compass'd the whole _secret_, some parts of which he said he was yet ignorant of, he intended to leave their company, and give the world an