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66 may mix with Your Studies for ever, and give bad Colours to every Thing You design, whether in Speech or Writing.

For, my Lord, these meaner Critics dress up their Entertainments so very Ill, that they will spoil Your Palate, and bring You to a vicious Taste. With them, as with distempered Stomachs, the ﬁnest Food and noblest juices turn to nothing but Crudities and lndigestion. You will have no Notion of Delicacies, if You table with them; they are all for rank and foul Feeding, and spoil the best Provisions in the Cooking: You must be content to be taught Rh