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NOTES.

  These too, if better known,
Were worthier prizing.

"Though I love my friends dearly, and though they arc good, I have, however, much to pardon, except in the single Klopstock alone. He is good, really good—good in all the foldings of his heart. I know him, and sometimes I think if we knew others in the same manner, the better we should find them. For it may be that an action displeases us which would please us if we knew its true aim and whole extent."—From the Letters of Meta Klopstock.

      I appeal
Unto mine equals.

"Perhaps love and grief may make me speak more than many will think fit. But though some passion blind the judgment, some doth but excite it to duty, and God made it to that end. And I will not he judged by any that never felt the like."—Richard Baxter on his Wife's Death.