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Rh In the verses to the lord chancellor Clarendon, two years afterwards, is a conceit so hopeless at the first view, that few would have attempted it; and so successfully laboured, that though at last it gives the reader more perplexity than pleasure, and seems hardly worth the study that it costs, yet it must be valued as a proof of a mind at once subtle and comprehensive:

The comparison of the Chancellor to the Indies leaves all resemblance too far behind it: And as the Indies were not found before Those rich perfumes which from the happy shore Rh