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Rh written, boasted an earlier date, than the days of Musæus the Grammarian; this Musæus, in whose hands it might have been lodg'd by the revolutions of time, probably supply'd casual omissions, and reduc'd the mangled carcase into a more regular form; either himself, or others, little fitted to the task, tinging it with those blemishes, which display too many instances of officious inequality.

E. B. G.