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NAPLES. 149
Miracle, and must confess I think it so
far from being a real Miracle, that I
look upon it as one of the most Bung'
ling Tricks that I ever saw: Yet it is
this that makes as great a Noise as any in
the Roman Church, and that Monsieur
Pafichal has hinted at among the rest, in
his Marks of the true Religion. The
modern Neapolitans seem to have copy’d
it out from one, which was shown in a
Town of the Kingdom of Naples^ as
long ago as in ■ Horace’s Time.
—-Dehinc Gnatia lymphis
Iratis extrutta dedit risufque jocosque^
D'Um flamma sine thura liquefcere limine
Sacro
Perfuadere cupit: credat °fiud<eus apella^
Nen ego--- Sat.y.L. 1.
At Gnatia next arriv’d, we laugh’d to
see
The superstitious Croud’s Simplicity,
That in thesacred Temple needs would
tTy /
Without a Fire th’unheated Gums tok.
fry > C
Believe who will the Solemn ShamA
not I. J
H 5
One
Miracle, and must confess I think it so
far from being a real Miracle, that I
look upon it as one of the most Bung'
ling Tricks that I ever saw: Yet it is
this that makes as great a Noise as any in
the Roman Church, and that Monsieur
Pafichal has hinted at among the rest, in
his Marks of the true Religion. The
modern Neapolitans seem to have copy’d
it out from one, which was shown in a
Town of the Kingdom of Naples^ as
long ago as in ■ Horace’s Time.
—-Dehinc Gnatia lymphis
Iratis extrutta dedit risufque jocosque^
D'Um flamma sine thura liquefcere limine
Sacro
Perfuadere cupit: credat °fiud<eus apella^
Nen ego--- Sat.y.L. 1.
At Gnatia next arriv’d, we laugh’d to
see
The superstitious Croud’s Simplicity,
That in thesacred Temple needs would
tTy /
Without a Fire th’unheated Gums tok.
fry > C
Believe who will the Solemn ShamA
not I. J
H 5
One