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80 Your Lordship. And if ever You do write, You will write as You speak, with all the Civility and good Breeding in the World. This, my Lord, will certainly be the happy Turn of Your Pen: Nothing can be wanting, but a Store of sound Learning to be put into so genteel a Dress; and when Your Lordship shall have furnished Yourself with that, and come to know the Correctness of Style, the Graces and Beauties of it will be Natural and Charming in all Your Compositions.

To assist Your Lordship therefore, as far as Art may be an Help to Nature, I shall proceed to say something of what is Rh