If SCANDERBERG had joined his Forces with HUNNIADES, as might have been expected before the Battel in the Plains of _Cossoan_, in good probability they might have ruin'd MAHOMET, if not the _Turkish_ Empire. If ALEXANDER had march'd Westward, and warr'd with the _Romans_, whether he had been able to subdue that little but valiant People, is an uncertainty: We are sure he overcame _Persia_; Histories attest, and Prophecies foretel the same. It was decreed that the _Persians_ should be conquered by ALEXANDER, and his Successors by the _Romans_, in whom Providence had determin'd to settle the fourth Monarchy, which neither PYRRHUS nor HANNIBAL must prevent; tho' HANNIBAL came so near it, that he seem'd to miss it by fatal Infatuation: which if he had effected, there had been such a traverse and confusion of Affairs, as no Oracle could have predicted. But the _Romans_ must reign, and the Course of Things was then moving towards the Advent of CHRIST, and blessed Discovery of the Gospel: Our Saviour must suffer at _Jerusalem_, and be sentenc'd by a _Roman_ Judge; St. PAUL, a _Roman_ Citizen, must preach in the _Roman_ Provinces, and St. PETER be Bishop of _Rome_, and not of _Carthage_. Upon Reading Hudibras. The way of _Burlesque_ POEMS is very Ancient, for there was a ludicrous mock way of transferring Verses of Famous Poets into a Jocose Sense and Argument, and they were call'd Ὠδέαι or _Parodiæ_; divers Examples of which are to be found in ATHENÆUS. The first Inventer hereof was HIPPONACTES, but HEGEMON SOPATER and many more pursu'd the same Vein; so that the _Parodies_ of OVID'S _Buffoon Metamorphoses Burlesques, Le Eneiade Travastito_, are no new Inventions, but old Fancies reviv'd. An Excellent _Parodie_ there is of both the SCALIGERS upon an Epigram of CATULLUS, which STEPHENS hath set down in his _Discourse of Parodies_: a remarkable one among the _Greeks_ is that of MATRON, in the Words and Epithites of HOMER describing the Feast of XENOCLES the _Athenian_ Rhetorician, to be found in the fourth Book of _Athenæus_, pag. 134. Edit. _Casaub._ CHRISTIAN MORALS, BY S^{R} THOMAS BROWN, OF NORWICH, _M.D._ And AUTHOR of RELIGIO MEDICI Published from the Original and Correct Manuscript of the Author; by _JOHN JEFFERY_, D.D. ARCH-DEACON of NORWICH. _CAMBRIDGE_ Printed at the UNIVERSITY-PRESS, For _Cornelius Crownfield_, Printer to the UNIVERSITY; And are to be sold by Mr. _Knapton_ at the Crown in St. _Paul's_ Churchyard; and Mr. _Morphew_ near Stationers-Hall, _LONDON_, 1716. _TO THE RIGHT_ HONOURABLE DAVID EARL OF BUCHAN.