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226 I hope, Your Lordship will not think I have recommended any Thing to You below Your Quality: Your Fortunes place You far above the Necessity of Learning, but nothing can set You above the Ornament of it: And I am the more bold to press it upon Your Lordship, because these Accomplishments appear with greater Advantages, and do really fit more handsomely on Persons of Quality, than any other.

The late Duke of Devonshire deserves a Name in the foremost List of our English Writers, but I reserved him to the last, because he was of Your Lordship's Alliance, and I thought his Name would better recommend what I Rh