ABSTRACT
Majoragius, abounding in leisure, and abusing that happy circumstance, is said to have written an oration in praise of mud or clay; Puteanus, in the same situation, celebrated an egg; one has written a panegyric on drunkenness; and others on a louse, a flea, the itch, and the ague.1 They might, it is certain, write what they pleased, and it is happy for us that there is no compulsion to read what they have thus wantonly composed.
