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courted, and hath rivalled the Greek and Latin Poets in every Kind, but Tragedy.
I will not trouble Your Lordship with the Historians any farther, than to inform You, that the Contest lyeth chiefly between Thucydides and Salust, Herodotus and Livy, though I think Thucydides and Livy may on many Accounts more justly be compared: The Critics have been very free in their Censures, but I shall be glad to suspend any farther judgment, till Your Lordship shall be able to read them, and give me Your Opinion.
Oratory and Philosophy are the next disputed Prizes; and whatever Praises may be
justly
