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 Commendation by only deerving it; and the utmot which the Faults of your Friends can hope for is your Silence; or, perhaps, if too everely accued, your gentle Palliation.

In hort, Sir, I upect, that your Dilike of public Praie is your true Objection to granting my Requet. I have oberved, that you have, in common with my two other Friends, an Unwillingnes to hear the leat Mention of your own Virtues; that, as a great Poet ays of one of you, (he might jutly have aid it of all three) you

Do Good by tealth, and bluh to find it Fame.

If Men of this Dipoition are as careful to hun Applaue, as others