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Show I To the Right Honourable:-'" L 'V CHARLESLord BUCKHURST. Mr LO RD,r A * S I v as lately reviewing m v loolc Paper-, anion. found this Effay, the writing of which in this rude and in ed manner wherein vourl .ordfhip now fees it,fcrv'd as anamu; ment to m e in the Country, when the violence of the laft Plague had driven m e from the Town. Seeing then our 'I heaters (hut L up, I was engage in thefekind of Thoughts with the fame delight with which Men think upon their, abfent Miftrefli* : i tonfcls I find many things in this Difcourfe which I do not approve ; my juds ^ng a little al-tfcr'd frnce the writing of it, but whither for I & \ know not: Neither indeed is it much material in an Eflai * « P ^ m a - •^ Forte way of Writing Plays in Verfe, which I , ivpur, I havcflnce that time laid the Praftice of itahde, till ^ ^ Z o ^ ^ t find it troublefome and How. But I a m no v :vmyOpn 10n ol it at l^fl-Wh invrnf rs which li posW it. Por vour Lordlbip m. t ^ S t ^ S , Sit** cnokVwhoeW ;>- ir orwhohavefuccceded mpt. Tis enough for/, m e to naveyoui? Lordnun? Fxample for m y excufe in that little which T have done in if j and I am S S ? f f l can bring no fucli Arguments agaaift Verfe , as the fourdi Aft of p i / ^ w i furnifh m e with, in its defence, Yet mv.Lord, you muff fui-t me a rSrcomplain of you, that you too loon withdv ™ n T ofwhich wTcxn-aed' the ecu ,c «* •/ ' vourEnfigns there had been man) m Leader; if not all, yet the better part ol V,•. P»s, indacHi metiorgre&e ; «w?&» & c^pes InominktA pcrpnmat aibilU. 1 amalmoft of Opinion, thatwelhonid fc*e^^^0^^^ fometimes the ft**. " ^ ^ O T ^ S ^ S f WriSft has generally pi,-,. ThcCour J,5^e^V«f™md&vOTrersofWitMdQ!ianty1 ,,10WM of Verfe; and in the Town rt has found£™"«? an(1 timc enough t0 give for your own particular, MyLnHyouhave g £ * * ^ ; , fcriom and p-artof itto the ^rtrtoet^t^ePubbck^«30ttyotL ,«, faid 0f , b p r o ^ , ^ t s t S d f ^.npie of the Mofes. The «, as near; them> w^rc d " 11 fiat w%efltre, f ?ou, Sit fc vrsyf*jo*r Cfjlunyttefurjonpipg?. , te#te^s ^or^^J^^ SX ^nd ennse becai ' 1o , l l;' the aHairs of theNation, where I know the World exp V^ Cnt Vobidv, on whom the Eyes ot allMen |