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138 bound up to the Geometers Rule, nor is an Author under any Obligation to write by the Scale.

These Hints will serve to give Your Lordship some Notion of Order and Proportion, and I must not dwell too long upon them, lest I transgress the Rules I am laying down.

My Lord, I shall make no formal Recapitulation of what I have delivered. Out of all these Rules together, rises a just Style, and a perfect Composition. All the Latitude, that can be admitted, is in the Ornament of Writing; we do not require every Author to shine in Gold and Jewels: There is a Rh