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 told you what I thought of Monsieur Boileau's Lutrin, and the Translation of it into English Verse, which you did me the Favour to send me in Writing.

M. Boileau and his Works, especially this of his Lutrin, are of so great a Name in the World, that I think it a pretty bold Attempt to endeavour to translate him; not but that I must confess I know but few Hands cou'd have succeeded better than this Gentleman has done. Amongst that Little that I have read of the French Poetry, M. Boileau seems to me without Comparison to have had the finest and the truest Taste of the best Authors of Antiquity; his violent Passion for 'em and famous Disputes in their behalf are too well known to be told over again now; it is very certain that he had 'em so perpetually in his Eye, that he form'd most of his Poetical Writings so closely after their Models, that in many of 'em especially his