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Rh Fancy of Homer's Writings, had found them loose, and undigested, and restored them to the Order they stand in now, I believe they would have gloried in their Art, and maintained it with more uncontested Reasons, than they are able to bring for the Discovery of a Word, or a Syllable hitherto falsly printed in the Text of any Author. But, my Lord, if any learned Men of singular Fancies and Opinions will not allow these Buildings to have been originally designed after the present Model, let them at least allow us one poetical Supposition on our Side, that Homer's Harp was as Powerful to command Rh