LEXIPHANES,

A

DIALOGUE.

IMITATED FROM LUCIAN, AND SUITED

TO THE PRESENT TIMES.

AN ATTEMPT

BEING

TO RESTORE THE ENGLISH

TONGUE TO ITS ANTIENT PURITY.

AND TO CORRECT AS WELL AS EXPOSE THE AFFECTED
STYLE, HARD WORDS, AND ABSURD PHRASEO-

LOGY OF MANY LATE WRITERS, AND
PARTICULARLY OF

Our ENGLISH LEXIPHANES, the RAMBLER.

Whose ordinary rate of Speech
In Loftiness of Sound is rich;
A Babylonish Dialect,

Which learned Pedants much affect;
It is a parti-colour'd Dress,
Of patch'd and py-bald Languages:
'Tis English cut on Greek or Latin,
Like Fustian heretofore on Satin.

HUDIBR.

THE THIRD EDITION CORRECTED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR R. FAULDER, NEW-BOND-STREET;

AND J. FIELDING, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

MDCCLXXXIII.