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 Oblivion. Thus it ever found some learned Philologist or Critick, to keep it secret from the Rage of Admirers; yet not so secret, but that it has still been communicated among the Literati. I am of Opinion, that our Great Scaliger borrow'd it, to work him up when he writ so sharply against Cardan; and perhaps Le Clerc too, when he prov'd Q. Curtius ignorant of every particular Branch of Learning.

This formal Account made me give Attention to what the Book contain'd; and I must acknowledge, that whether it be his, or the Work of some Grammarian, it appears to be writ in his Spirit. The open Profession of Enmity to great Genius's, and the Fear of nothing so much as that he may not be able to find Faults enough, are such Resemblances of his strongest Features, that any one might take it for his own Production. To give the World a Notion of this, I have made a Collection of some, which most struck me, during that short Time in which I was allow'd to peruse the Manuscript.