"A handsome Fellow! why he is a Wit (Sir) and you know the Proverb;"
"That for Matter of Merit it was all one, you might wear a Mask."
"That Wits were privileged to wear what Masks they pleased in all Ages; and that a Vizard had been the constant Crown of their Labours, which was generally presented them by the Hand of some Satyr, and sometimes of Apollo himself:"
"That such Authors were the Larvati[4] or Larvâ donati of the Ancients."
"That tho' indeed he talked of a Vizard, he did not believe all the while you had any more Occasion for it than the Cat-a-mountain;"
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