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 with a pronoun, both which are the rhyming syllables in the two couplets:

It was evidently impossible to imitate this in a translation; but setting this circumstance aside, the merit of the latter French version seems to me to approach very near to that of the original.

author of this translation of the poem of Hudibras, evidently a man of superior abilities, appears to have been endowed with an uncommon share of modesty. He presents his work to the public with the utmost diffidence; and, in a short preface, humbly deprecates its censure for the presumption that may be imputed to him, in attempting that