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122 For it is of great Importance to call Things by their right Names: The Points of Satyr, and Strains of Compliment depend upon it, otherwise we may make an Ass of a Lion, commend a Man in Satyr, and lampoon him in Panegyric. Here also, my Lord, there is room for Genius: Common Justice, and judgment should direct us to say what is proper at least, but it is Parts and Fire that will prompt us to the most lively, and most forcible Epithets, that can be applied; and 'tis in their Energy and Propriety, their Beauty lieth.

Allegories I need not mention, because they are not so Rh