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 x x o Terre-FJ!ius. .xx. erring. From this happ 2, day Dick's books become of little other ule, but to lay his bands- and ruffles on i aieu to all thoughts of' advancement in learn, ing, he had nobler vieva. Yet tO un{btunate was he by what he retain'd of hit former reading, the foil heid fo much. of what had been already fown, that when it be- nme no longer cuttivatrd, it now and then put forth a blade amongit the weeds, which refembled that of the true ted, but had none of' its intinfick worth. His brain which could not all on a �udden come barren, now and then pro- duced a former, a letter to Corinnn, which dwindled by d .egrees from bad to worth, till at laf[ he could not find any thing better than an epithet to toatt his mittrefi. In this unhappy 1tate he hnguifhes at pre/nti the girl is bnd of his addreffes. and the publick notice that is taken of her by this. poor lover l the only good luck that attends this pair zs, that neither of them have (fince the amour comment'd) had ufe enough of thought to conrider of the danger, nor fpirit en9ugh to fpur them to the plealure of a more lift& uo:on, Now I have told this tale, I would not have any of my readers think I deiign to bear hard upon that ix, which is the perfc&io of the fpedes; for the bad ones, cen{'ure is of no force with them, nor would I remember the,:.e are fuch in the world, but as a foil to the good. I would only warn the belt of them from being influenc'd by the thoughts of' p!eafmg and being aeble to a perfort in the fiate of the gentleman ! have been talkin of; on whom they can have no defign, which prudence warran. rs, or k, hich wiilom can :pprove. Let fhem am their dar s on a more proper part of mankind, and always tot a greater value on thdr power, than to cxecife it on poor boys. ! havcfaiditcando.them- fdvc

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