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212 Charms remaining to make Your Lordship enamoured of him. His antique Verse hath Music in it to ravish any Ears, that can be sensible of the softest, sweetest Numbers, that ever flowed from a Poet's Pen.

Shakespear is a Wonderful Genius, a single Instance of the Force of Nature, and the Strength of Wit. Nothing can be greater, and more lively, than his Thoughts; nothing nobler, and more forcible, than his Expression. The Fire of his Fancy breaketh out into his Words, and sets his Reader on a Flame: He maketh the Blood run cold or warm, and is so admirable a Master of the Passions, Rh