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Rh Parsimony in Sense, and for Your most inoffensive Food to live upon dry Meat and insipid Stuff without any Poignancy or Relish.

So then, my Lord, these Gentlemen will never be able to form Your Taste or Your Style, and those who cannot give You a true Relish of the best Writers in the World, can never instruct You to write like them.

Give me Leave, my Lord, to touch this Subject, and draw out for Your Lordship's Use, some of the chief Strokes, some of the principal Lineaments, and fairest Features of a just and beautiful Style. There is Rh