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the former edition of this Dissertation, (A.D. 1697), I thought myself obliged to take notice of a certain passage in a preface to Phalaris's Epistles, published at Oxford two years before, which I did in these words:

"The late editors of Phalaris have told the world in their Preface, that, among other specimens of their diligence, they collated the King's manuscript, as far as the XLth epistle, and would have done so throughout, but that the Library-keeper out of his singular humanity denied them the further use of