XIV + 

Let us go back to the ******вБ†вЄЇвБ†in the last chapter. + 

It is a singular stroke of eloquence (at least it was so, when eloquence flourished at Athens and Rome, and would be so now, did orators wear mantles) not to mention the name of a thing, when you had the thing about you in petto, ready to produce, pop, in the place you want it. A scar, an axe, a sword, a pinkвАЩd doublet, a rusty helmet, a pound and a half of pot-ashes in an urn, or a three-halfpenny pickle potвБ†вАФbut above all, a tender infant royally accoutred.вБ†вАФThough if it was too young, and the oration as long as TullyвАЩs second PhilippickвБ†вАФit must certainly have beshit the oratorвАЩs mantle.вБ†вАФAnd then again, if too old,вБ†вАФit must have been unwieldy and incommodious to his actionвБ†вАФso as to make him lose by his child almost as much as he could gain by it.вБ†вАФOtherwise, when a state orator has hit the precise age to a minuteвБ†вЄЇвБ†hid his bambino in his mantle so cunningly that no mortal could smell itвБ†вЄЇвБ†and produced it so critically, that no soul could say, it came in by head and shouldersвБ†вАФOh Sirs! it has done wondersвБ†вАФIt has openвАЩd the sluices, and turnвАЩd the brains, and shook the principles, and unhinged the politicks of half a nation. + 

These feats however are not to be done, except in those states and times, I say, where orators wore mantlesвБ†вЄЇвБ†and pretty large ones too, my brethren, with some twenty or five-and-twenty yards of good purple, superfine, marketable cloth in themвБ†вАФwith large flowing folds and doubles, and in a great style of design.вБ†вАФAll which plainly shows, may it please your worships, that the decay of eloquence, and the little good service it does at present, both within and without doors, is owing to nothing else in the world, but short coats, and the disuse of trunk-hose.вБ†вЄЇвБ†We can conceal nothing under ours, Madam, worth showing. + 