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The Preface.
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Me all too mean for such a Task I weet.

Again,

Graps he the Bolt? we ask, when he has hurl'd the Flame.

And,

Nor found they lagg'd too flow, nor flew too fast.

And again,

With Fear and with Desire, with Joy and Pain
She fees and runs to meet him on the Plain.

And,

With all his Rage, and Dread, and Grief, and Care.

In his Poèm in answer to Mrs. Eliz. Singer, on her Poem upon Love and Friendship,

And dies in Woe, that thou may'st live in Peace.

The only farther Example of Monosyllabick Verses I shalt infert here, and which I cannot well omit, is what I wou'd desire the Author to apply to his own Censure of Monosyllables, they are these which follow;

Then since you now have done your worst,
Pray leave me where you found me first.
Part of the seventh Epistle of the first Book of Horace imitated, and addred to anoble Peer, p. ult.

After so many Authorities of the Gentlemen, these few Instances from some of our Female Poets, may I hope be permitted to take place. I will begin with Mrs: Philips on the Death of the Queen of Bohemia;

Over all Hearts and her own Griefs she reign'd.

And