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208 be light, or serious, and hath laid down the Rules of common Life with so much judgment, in such agreeable, such lively, and elegant Language, that from him Your Lordship at once may form Your Manners and Your Style.

Perhaps l shall be blamed, if I recommend any Modern Comedies to Your Reading. They are, indeed, most of them, so very prophane and obscene, that I had much rather caution Your Lordship most earnestly against them, than give them the least Countenance in judging, they may be read with Safety. But if the most Innocent were chosen, Rh