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 one's finger upon a table? What needs more be said of your Industry and Observation? But that you are more rich in acquired Knowledge, then could be expected from the Excellency of your Naturals? And what more is wanting to be rare in any or all things, then to have so much Memory, Judgement, Fancy, and Industry, as I have here attributed to your Lordship? If great words, farre fetcht Comparisons, and the like Artifices of Orators and Poets; or if pumping or raking were necessary for this work, I should not entrust Dr. Petty with it; For his pen being furred with the slime of so many uncouth words & Clerkish phrases brought out of Ireland, is become an unfit Conduit through which to convey the knowledge of your Lordship to the world; I wish I could see this business so performed, that we might say, Materiam superabat opus; As for the Doctor, I would have him think upon the Fable of the Dog and the Ass, the first whereof pleased his Master with Crouches, fawning, and by his sequacity, whereas the other could not do it without labour and substantial Services. Let him