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Rh Tale so well. In the best Collection of the Miscellanies, Your Lordship will read with Pleasure the most perfect Pieces of Composition the greatest Masters have produced, and without entring into the Characters of any, it will be enough to say, they are all admirable.

To these I may add some of more ancient Date, and tho' their Style is out of the Standard now, there are in them still some Lines so extremely beautiful, that our Modern Language cannot reach them. Chaucer is too Old, I fear, for so young Company as Your Lordship; but Spencer, tho' he be antiquated too, hath still Rh