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 sification; of which it will be best to give his own account subjoined to this line:

"I am sorry that it is necessary to admonish the most part of readers, that it is not by negligence that this verse is so loose, long, and, as it were, vast; it is to paint in the number the nature of the thing which it prescribes, which I would have observed in divers other places of this poem, that else will pass for very careless verses: as before,

"In the second book;

"—And,

"In the third,

"In the fourth,

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