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ESSAY

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CRITICISM.

Si quid novifti rectius iftis,

Candidus imperti; fi non, his utere mecum.

HORAT.

LONDON:

Printed for W. Lewis in Ruffel-Street, Covent-Garden; And Sold by
W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Nofter-Row, T. Osborn in Grays-Inn
near the Walks, and F. Graves in St. James's-Street. MDCCXI.

IS hard to say, if greater Want of Skill
Appear in Writing or in Judging ill;

But, of the two, lefs dang'rous is th' Offence,

To tire our Patience, than mif-lead our Sense:
Some few in that, but Numbers err in this,
Ten Cenfure wrong for one who Writes amiss;
A Fool might once himself alone expose,
Now One in Verse makes many more in Profe.
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