. The craftsman. T 3 Saturday^. 12a ^e Cr a fts man; N^ aojf; N° no^. Saturday, July df^ ^75^* Measure for Measure- ^ 57^^ T///^ of a late Jiiipd Court-Paper» HEN the old Roman Law of Majejiywas profcituted, under Tiberius, to badPurpofes of all Kinds, and Profecutionswithout Number were fet on Foot, n-^-on fcandaJous Informations^ againft eve-ry Body, who happend to become ob-noxious to the Emperor, or his Minifiers, We £ndthe following, extraordinary Inllance of Severity men-tioned by Tacitus. Caius Lutorius Prifcus, a Roman Knight, who hadwritten a celebrated Poem on the Death of Germanicus

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. The craftsman. T 3 Saturday^. 12a ^e Cr a fts man; N^ aojf; N° no^. Saturday, July df^ ^75^* Measure for Measure- ^ 57^^ T///^ of a late Jiiipd Court-Paper» HEN the old Roman Law of Majejiywas profcituted, under Tiberius, to badPurpofes of all Kinds, and Profecutionswithout Number were fet on Foot, n-^-on fcandaJous Informations^ againft eve-ry Body, who happend to become ob-noxious to the Emperor, or his Minifiers, We £ndthe following, extraordinary Inllance of Severity men-tioned by Tacitus. Caius Lutorius Prifcus, a Roman Knight, who hadwritten a celebrated Poem on the Death of Germanicus, and received a Reward for it from the Emperor,was accufed by one of the infamous Court-hformersof thofe Times. The Charge againft Him was that,during the Ulnefs of Drufusy He had ccmpofed aPoem of the fame Nature, which He defignd to have-publiihd, in Cafe Drufus had died, with the Hopes-of a better Reward. This Gentkmany it feems, had been fo weak as tocommunicate his Intention, out of Levity or Vain-glory, to foine Ladie

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