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Rh easy Transition, or Metaphors are shocking and confused.

The Beauty of them displays itself in their Easiness and Propriety, where they are naturally introduced; but where they are forced, and crowded, too frequent and various, and do not rise out of the Course of Thought, but are constrained and pressed into the Service, instead of making the Discourse more lively and cheerful, they make it sullen, dull and gloomy.

Your Lordship must form Your Judgment upon the best Models, and the most celebrated Pens, where you will ﬁnd the Metaphor in all its Grace Rh