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of Quality, he doth not fall below them in the Excellency of his Pen, and in Poetry he soareth above them. Mr. Granville is the Poetical Son of Waller: We observed with Pleasure Similitude of Wit in the Difference of Years, and in Mr. Granville do meet at once the Fire of his Father's Youth, and the Judgment of his Age. Others I forbear, because tho' a thousand Occasions testify their Abilities, their Modesty hath hitherto concealed their Works and Names; only give me Leave to add, it is the Opinion of some good Judges, that if the Duke of Marlborough would give us his own Me-

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