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right ; however, that there (is) a time coming 

 when God will bring forth my righteousness as 

 the light, and my integrity as noon-day. Mr. 

 Wharton was one, for whose worth I ever had 

 a just value, and, if I have exceeded in any 

 thing, it has been upon all occasions in over- 

 high commendations of him. But he was sub- 

 ject to one weakness (which all his friends that 

 intimately knew him could not but take notice 

 of,) viz. a vanity of magnifying his own per- 

 formances, and an overweening conceit of him- 

 self, joined with an insatiable thirst after fame, 

 which it is like his reduced age might have 

 corrected, as I once told one of your Grace's 

 predecessors, who was his great patron, when 

 he was pleased to ask my opinion of him. 

 With pardon humbly begged for the trouble of 



this tedious account, 



I am. 



My Lord, 



Your Grace's in all dutiful observance, 



Wm. Cave. 



The copy of the Historia Literaria, to which 

 Dr. Cave here alludes, which formerly be- 

 longed to Mr. Wharton, and contains his 

 manuscript notes, is still preserved in the 

 MS. library at Lambeth. 



