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Rh the Plainness and Clearness of Style, without some Expressions clearer than the Terms I am otherwise bound up to use.

Your Lordship must give me Leave to go on with You to the Decorations and Ornaments of Style: There is no Inconsistency between the Plainness and Perspicuity, and the Ornament of Writing. A Style, my Lord, resembleth Beauty, where the Face is clear and plain as to Symmetry and Proportion, but is capable of wonderful Improvements, as to Features and Complexion. If I may transgress in too frequent Allusions, because I would make every Thing plain to Rh