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Rh refresh Your Spirits in the End of a tedious Discourse, if I lay before You some of the correctest Writers of this Age and the last, in several Faculties upon different Subjects. History, Poetry, and Divinity have been the distinguishing Parts of our Writings, and I will be bold to give this general Character of our Writers in them, that they only fall short of the Graces and Beauties of the Ancients.

Divinity, my Lord, is the just Boast and Glory of England. I need not say, that our Writers have excelled in Soundness of Doctrine, Exactness of Method, and Clearness of Reasoning, but they have excelled Rh