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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 Decorum 3 20, I have been fo free, I pope, as not to be. licentious, fo bold, as wot to be immodeft : Iconfidered, that Rambling Variations, as well as Verbatim Coxftruétions, are both the Scandalous Tasks of School-boys 5 zZerefore I fo far conſulted the avoiding each Extreme, 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 jarving: 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 adapt not their Garb to the Mode of the Country they refide in, are rather an Objet to Stare and Gaze at, than to Bow to, Reverence, o” be any Way Refpetted. | The Reafon on which thes 2s grounded being a Propricty 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. Commen
