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118 Pleasure we can take, when we meet these promising Sparks, is in the Disappointment, where we ﬁnd their Fancy is so like their Subject, that it is not like at all.

Metaphors, my Lord, require great judgment and Consideration in the Use of them. They are a shorter Similitude, where the Likeness is rather implied than expressed. The Signiﬁcation of one Word in Metaphors is transferred to another, and we talk of one Thing in the Terms and Propriety of another. But, my Lord, there must be a common Resemblance, some Original Likeness in Nature, some Correspondence and Rh