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206 Reading these celebrated Authors will give Your Lordship a true Taste of good Writing, and form You to a just and correct Style upon every Occasion that shall demand Your Pen. I would not recommend any of them to a strict Imitation: That is servile and mean, and You cannot propose an exact Copy of a Pattern without falling short of the Original; but if Your Lordship once readeth them with a true Relish and Discernment of their Beauties, You may lay them aside, and be secure of Writing with all the Graces of them all, without owing Your Perfection to any. Your Style Rh