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Yourself; and when Your Lordship and I shall be able to depart from the common received Opinions of the Critics and Commentators, I may take some other Occasion of laying them before Your Lordship, and submitting what I shall then say of them to Your Lordship's Approbation.

In the mean time, I shall only give Your Lordship two or three Cautions, and Directions for Your reading them, which to some People will look a little odd, but with me they are of great Moment, and very necessary to be observ'd.

The first is, that Your Lordship would never be persuaded

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