among the Moderns. Upon Inquiry, I found my learned Friend had dined that Day with Mr.

Swan

, the famous Punnster; and desiring him to give me some Account of Mr.

Swan's

Conversation, he told me that he generally talked in the

Paranomasia

, that he sometimes gave into the

Plocè

, but that in his humble Opinion he shined most in the

Antanaclasis