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70 Cæsar, my Lord, writ like a Man of Quality, and among innumerable Excellencies, which he holdeth in Common with other Authors, he possesseth this almost peculiar to himself, that You see the Prince and the Gentleman, as well as the Scholar and the Soldier in his Memoirs. Ovid was all over a Man of Breeding, and perhaps if I may be allowed to make a Conjecture, the Copiousness of his Expressions was owing in some Measure to the Civility of his Breeding, as well as to the Luxuriance of his Fancy; and indeed, my Lord, that is the Fault I have found in the Writings of Rh