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 naturally the Seeds of them all within your self, never wanting more then season to bring them forth.

I think t'would very well become Dr. Petty to make it as much his business to magnifie your Lordships virtues, as to diminish the ill opinion some have of himself. There needs nothing to a Panegyrick on your Lordship, but to know you, and to be able to write: A bare Narrative of your natural and acquired parts, as also of the noble effects of both, will outshine the strained Hyperbolies, Allusions, and Epiphonema's of Poets, and will appear like the apparell of the greatest persons, though plain, yet magnificent; What needs there be said more in praise, and as proof of your memory, then that with most contemptible helps you have attained in a trice, the perfection of severall foraign Languages? How can one better set forth the perspicacity of your wit, reason, and fancy? then by averring you are able to understand a Geometrical demonstration at first hearing? and that without the sight of well proportioned Diagrams; having the help onely of Imaginary Delineations made with