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 And on the Marriage of the Lord Dungannon,

To Gilbert Lord Archbishop of Canterbury,

Mrs. Wharton upon the Lamentations of Jeremiah;

And my Lady Winchelsea in her Poem entituled, The Poor Man's Lamb;

Sir, from these numerous Instances, out of the Writings of our greatest and noblest Poets, it is apparent, That had the Enmity against Monosyllables, with which there are some who make so great a Clamour, been so great in all Times, we must have been deprived of some of the best Lines, and finest Flowers, that are to be met with in the beautiful Garden of our English Posie. Perhaps this may put our Countreymen upon studying with greater Niceness the use of these kind of Words, as well in the Heroick Compositions, as in the softer and more gentle Strains. I peak not this, upon Confidence of any Judgment I have in Poetry, but according to that Skill, which is natural to the Musick