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26 should be more correct in the Rules of Writing, if that strange Opinion prevaileth, that Homer writ without any View or Design at all, that his Poems are loose, independent Pieces tacked together, and were originally only many Ballads or Songs upon the Gods and Heroes, and the Siege of Troy. If this be true, they are the completest String of Ballads I ever met with, and whoever collected them, and put them in the Method we now read them in; whether it were Pisistratus, or any other, hath placed them in such Order, that the Iliad and the Odysseïs seem to have been composed Rh Errata