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“To the Reader
„command. Yet I would not bave tr bereby
ſuſpetted that I have taken a ftraying Frisk
or Faunt, beyond the Limits of a juft Deco¬
rum 3 20, I have been fo free, I pope, as not
to be. licentious, fo bold, as wot to be immo¬
deft : Iconfidered, that Rambling Variations,
as well as Verbatim Coxftruétions, are both
the Scandalous Tasks of School-boys 5 zZere¬
fore I fo far conſulted the avoiding each Ex¬
treme, that I have rhis Disjunctive Plea to
gag the Men of Teeth with, where-ever the
Latin appears to have been feemingly injure,
and receded from, there I doubted a too clofe
Adherence would have been rough and jar¬
ving: Again, where the Engliſh wants any
thing of Cadence or Coberence, there Icheck’a
my Range, and was afraid of treading too
wide from the Footſteps of the Original. For
that the ſame Haraugue, compleatly Eloquent
in one Tongue, would be left winning and
perfwafive when. cloſe interpreted in another,
as as obvious, as that ‘Travellers, zf they a¬
dapt not their Garb to the Mode of the Coun¬
try they refide in, are rather an Objet to
Stare and Gaze at, than to Bow to, Reve¬
rence, o” be any Way Refpetted. | The Rea¬
fon on which thes 2s grounded being a Pro¬
pricty 22 each Language to peculiar Tropes,
Fégures, Phrafes, &c. 2s fo known a Topick,
that to them who underftand the Original
Latin 2 2s swholly fuperfluous, avd to thoſe
that do nor it is altogether as needleſs.
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