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Rh Scruples; for they have seldom Parts enough to discover the true Graces of their Authors; and those words, which in their Natural Situation shine like Jewels enchased in Gold, look, when transposed into their Notes, as if they were set in Lead, and adorned with that resplendent Metal.

Setting these grave Gentlemen aside, I have often wished, my Lord, that some of the finest Wits would undertake the finest Writers in the World, and give us a Comment upon them to display the Life and Beauty of their Authors: It requireth a Genius, like that wherewith they writ, to write upon them: Rh