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deared to us b}' false titles and compliments; being coz- 

 ened with a specious name, though much incoherent to 

 the thing we ascribe it : or else, omitting the vice which 

 is the main, it intimates only the virtue, which is the by : as 

 for example, we call an ambiguous man /xeyaXsTryj/SoXoj, a 

 person of noble aim and high enterprise : whereas, in 

 truth, it signifies, an indirect affecter of grandeur. And 

 I find, that by incautelous entertainment of these phrases, 

 our judgments are often bribed to misapprehensions, and 

 we seduced to bad actions. I have endeavoured in the 

 ensuing discourse, to wipe off the paint and fucus : that 

 so things may appear in their true complexion, unadul- 

 terated with the slights and subtleties of deluders. 



My Lord, that your Lordship may be one of those 

 which the dark poet calls S»j yj^rjVavIa, that the youth of 

 your honours may be renewed to you, that your happi- 

 ness may know no other season but a spring, is the earnest 

 vote of your bounden Servant. 



