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absurd Painters and Poets, that join a Woman's Head to a Fish's Tail, and crowd Contradictions in the same Piece together. He hath exposed and ridiculed those trifling Poetasters, that spend themselves in glaring Descriptions, and would compensate for their Dulness and Incapacity, by sewing here and there some Cloth of Gold on their Sackcloth. All inconsiderate Writers, or Writers not furnished for Consideration, are the same. Their Imagination either rambles, or is low and dull, either it cannot rise to the Subject, or wandereth from it. 'Tis nothing but a Vapour and false Fire, and if in reading