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144 restraining them: Ovid, Your Lordship knoweth, was deaf to his Father's frequent Admonitions; But if they are not quite smitten, and bewitched with Love of Verse, they should be trained to it, to make them Masters of every kind of Poetry, that by Learning to imitate the Originals, they may arrive at a right Conception, and a true Taste of their Authors; and being able to write in Verse upon Occasion, I can assure Your Lordship is no Disadvantage to Prose, for without relishing the one, a Man must never pretend to any Taste of the other. Rh