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 Concernment to the Commonwealth. This Custom I humbly desire may be received into this ingenious Assembly, and that I may have the Honour to be the first Man that shall put it in Practice. For I perceive, we have not only heard all, and more than all, that can be said to the Purpose concerning over-Balance and Propriety, but like those that are out of their Way, the further we go the further we are from our End; and I doubt, in Conclusion. shall come to discover, that there is no such Thing at present in the English Nation, as either the one, or the other—Besides, Sir, as all Rotations and Wheelings cause a kind of Giddiness in the Brain; so if we provide not some wholesome Diversion for those that we have so often heard of, it will not be in the Power of this sober and considerate Coffee to