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52 Lord, is a Demonstration, that we are capable of little else than Words, till we come into our Teens, if Your Lordship will observe, that a Lad shall be able to repeat his Grammar over two or three Years before his Understanding opens enough to let him into the Reason, and clear Apprehension of the Rules, and when this is done sooner or later, it ceaseth to be Cant and Jargon; so that all this Clamour is wrong founded, and the Cause of Complaint lies rather against the Backwardness of our Judgment, than the Method of our Schools: And therefore I am for the old Rh