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Lordship ever light into some formal Hands, though Your Sense is too fine to relish those Pedantries I have been remonstrating against, when You come to understand them, yet for the present they may impose upon You with a grave Appearance; and, as Learning is commonly managed by such Persons, You may think them very Learned, because they are very Dull. And if You should receive the Tincture, while you are young, it may sink too deep for all the Waters of Helicon to take out. You may be sensible of it as we are of ill Habits, which we regret, but cannot break, and so it

may