But, the Doctor having pitched upon this criticism, and penned it, somebody, I believe, put him in mind of the absurdity thereof; and yet the generous _Professor_, (who writes running hand and never transcribed his papers, if I am not misinformed), presumed nobody else could be more intelligent than he, who had perused Stephen. He would not retract anything, but subjoins, “That he will allow it as passable, because other modern writers, and some of the ancients, have so used it, as Mr. Hobbes hath done.” I know not what authors the Doctor meant, for, if I am not much mistaken, I do not find any in Stephen. His citation of Columella is not right, (lib. v. cap. 5), nor can I deduce anything thence till I have read the passage, but, if he take Juvenal and Cœlius for modern authors, I hope he will admit of Accius, Nævius, and Carmenta, for the only ancients. Let him think upon this criticism, and never hope pardon for his _Adducis malleum_, which is not half so well justified, and yet none but _madmen_ or _fools_ reject it. But certainly the Doctor should not have made it his business to object _Anglicisms_, in whose Elenchus I doubt not but there may be found such phrases as may serve to convince him that he is an Englishman, however Scottified in his principles. If the Doctor doubt of it, or but desire a catalogue, let him but signify his mind, and he shall be furnished with a _Florilegium_. But I am now come to the main controversy about Empusa. The Doctor saith nothing in defence of his _quibble_, nor gives any reason why he jumbled languages to make a silly clinch, which will not pass for wit either at Oxford or at Cambridge; no, nor at Westminster.