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Rh Anwer was not o incere as that which a Dutch Ambaador made, who, when the ame Monarch complain'd that his Maters paid les Regard to him than they had done to Cromwell; Ah Sir! ays the Ambaador, Oliver was quite another Man  'Tis not my Intent to give a Commentary on Waller's Character, nor on that of any other Peron; for I conider Men after their Death in no other Light than as they were Writers, and wholly diregard every Thing ele. I hall only oberve, that Waller, tho' born in a Court, and to an Etate of five or fix thouand Pounds Sterling a Year, was never o proud or o indolent as to lay aide the happy Talent which Nature had indulg'd him. The Earls of Doret and Rocommon, the two Dukes of Buckingham, the Lord Halifax and o many other Noblemen, did not think the Reputation they obtain'd of very great Poets and illutrious Writers, any way derogatory to their Quality. They are more glorious for their Works than for Rh