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TO THE

HONOURABLE

OF THE

BRITISH PRINCES.

, Y Judgement in Poetry hath, you know, been once already Censured by very good Wits, for commending Gondibert; ''but yet they have not, I think, disabled my testimony. For, What Authority is there in Wit? A Jester may have it; a Man in drink may have it, and be fluent over night, and wise and dry in''