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"For, how could you expect iver they call the Public will say when it sees

soout noith all my

years upon my back, and with a book as dry as a rush, devoid of

invention,

and wisdoin or annotations at the end,

after the fashion of other books I see, which, though all fables and

profanity, are so full of maxims from Aristotle, and Plato, and the whole

herd of philosophers, that they fill the readers with amaze, erudition, and

eloquence And then, when they quote the Holy Scriptures!--anyone would

say they are St Tho as

they do a decoruenious that in one sentence they describe a

distracted lover and in the next deliver a devout little sermon that it

is a pleasure and a treat to hear and read Of all this there will be

nothing in in or to note

at the end, and still less do I knohat authors I follow in it, to

place the, as all do, under the letters A, B, C,

beginning with Aristotle and ending with Xenophon, or Zoilus, or Zeuxis,