To pass over his next idle quotation, and an old batter’d _English_ proverb; the next person he falls upon, is the _Roman_ orator; and with his usual discretion, he gives me to understand that he means _Tully_ by him. ’Tis well he tells us whom he means; for of all the men in the world, I thought an attorney had as little to do with an orator, as a bawd with an eunuch. But why should a fellow that never meant any thing in his life, pretend to meaning? Or how came _Tully_ and such a blockhead to be acquainted? Well, but _Tully_, he says, observes that the earth itself, which, I hope by the bye, will one of these days stop his pettifegging mouth, for calling it the vilest of the four elements, is a standing testimony against ingratitude; and why forsooth, because it returns the husbandman two for one. I can’t imagine how it should come into this wretch’s head to rail at ingratitude, who is the most ungrateful devil that ever liv’d; and ’tis ten to one but I prove it before I have done with him. He is ungrateful in the first place to his schoolmaster, for making no better use of the _Latin_ he wipp’d into him. He is ungrateful to the _Common Law_, for polluting it which wicked sentences purloin’d out of _Pagan_ authors: and lastly, he is ungrateful to the _Inn_ he lives in, for dreaming seven whole years there to no purpose, and continuing as great a blockhead as when he first come to town. Towards the conclusion of his letter, _you must understand_, says he, _that one_--This he said to show his civility and good manners; _You must understand_? Why suppose I won’t _understand_, how will he help himself? Or what man alive can understand a fellow that murders his thoughts between two languages? but I find I must _understand_ him right or wrong. After this compliment, he tells me an idle foolish story of a widow in _Shoe-lane_, and raves about five pounds, that I know nothing of; and is so full of it that a few lines below he calls it the sum _supradict_. I shall take another opportunity to knock this impertinent tale on the head, and shall only desire you at present to acquaint this _W. H._ from me, that when he has answer’d this letter, I design to give him satisfaction in his other points. In the mean time, unknown Sir, I am as the _Roman_ orator has it, _Tuus ab ovo usque ad mala_, Q. Z. LETTER II. _SIR_, I don’t know what plenty of _Latin_ you may have in the _University_; tho’, by the bye, I can hardly believe you are so overstock’d with it as you pretend; but I dare swear that _good manners_ are very scarce things among you, and your letter sufficiently demonstrates it.