Note 132 — [2] A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD.[76]
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Those who are familiar with the Works of Erasmus may verify the Story. He may have been, and probably was, like the Rest of the learned World, a Believer in such Nonsense. The great Poet who has contributed to his Immortality in the following Lines may not have heard of the above Story:
"At length Erasmus, that great injured Name, (The Glory of the Priesthood and the Shame!) Stem'd the wild Torrent of a bar'brous Age, And drove those holy Vandals off the Stage."