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III J Letter from Vr Thomas Molyncu^^ F. ^ S. 
to the^^ht Q{eyerend Sc George, lor J Btjh^p of 
Clogher in Ireland, containing fome Thoughts con^ 
cermng the Aneient Greek ^ncHkomzn Lyre^ and an 
' Explanation $f an ohfcure ^^Jf%^ in one §f HoraceV 
Odes, 
Mj very much Homurd Lord. 
O lit of the abundance of your good Nature, and the un- 
deferved fcindnefs you have always flsewed me, your 
Lordftiip has formerly been pleafed, not to diflike fome 
Thoughts I have communicated to you on feveral Subjeftf, 
as they occafionally came in my way ^ this has given me in- 
couragcment to trouble you again in the like manner, and 
fend you the following Remarks, which 1 accidentally made^ 
as I was reading over one of B$race% Odei to my little Cozen 
Samud Molfneux whom I find, I thank God, a Child of 
very pregnant Parts, and likely to follow the fteps of his 
late Father, your good Friend. 
'Perhaps you may think what I am going to write the 
more confiderable, and the better deferving your Lordftiips 
notice, becaufe it explains, and as I imagine, retrieves an 
ingenious Thought, that for ought that appears, had been 
wholy loft in a piece of Poetry, which the Learnedft Criticks 
both of the paft and prefcnt Age, have efteemed one of the 
moft correft Mafter pieces Antiquity has left us in its kind, 
I mean the 3d Ode of the 4th Book, beginning with thefe 
Words, 
Llllin 
