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Rh well in Wit, as Arms; for tho' Greece may have the Honour of Invention, yet 'tis easier to strike out a new Course of Thought, than to equal old Originals, and therefore it is more Honour to surpass, than to invent anew. Verrio is a great Man from his own Designs, but if he had attempted upon the Cartons, and out-done Raphael Urbin in Life and Colours, he had been acknowledged greater than that celebrated Master, but now we must think less.

If I may detain Your Lordship with a short Comparison of the Greek and Roman Authors, I must needs own, the Rh