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be Ambitious: The Flattering of whom, is fomewhat like 
the Tickling of Children, till they fall a Dancing. But I 
alfo know, that Your Lordfhip wnconcerneth Your felf as 
much, in what I even now fpake; as Cafar did himfelf, 
when his Souldiers began to ftyle him King. For as he (aid, 
Non Rex, fed Cafar: So let Your Lordthip be but once 
nam d, and all that follows, is but a Tautology to what You 
are already known to be. Your being Prefident of the Royal 
Society , Your being the Firft that was Chofen, and Chofen 
by fo Knowing a Prince ; becomes fo real a Panegyrick to Your 
Lordfhip, as leaveth Verbal ones without any found. 
Whence, my Lord, I have a third Reafon moft naturally 
emergent, which is,That I dare to fubmit my felf, as to what I 
have hereafter faid, to Your Lordfhips Cenfure. You being 
fo able and juft an Arbiter betwixt the fame and all thofe Per- 
fons therein concern'd , that You can-neither be deceived, nor 
corrupted, to make a Fudgment in any Point, to the Injury of 
either. 
And truly, my Lord, were it only from a Principle of felf- 
Intereft, yet I could not defire it fhould be otherwife. For the 
World, if it lives, will certainly grow as much more knowing 
than it iss as it ismow more, than it was heretofore. So 
that we have as little Reafon to defpife Antiquity ; as we can 
have willingne{s, that we our felves fhould be defpifed by Po- 
fterity. 
Te y fome difference there is to be made’; viz. betwixt thofe 
of all Ages, who have been modeftly ignorant ; and thofe who 
have thought, or pretended, that they were Ommnifcient. Or 
if knowing and acknowledging that they were Ignorant shave 
yet not been contented to be fo ; unlefs, with as good manners, 
as fenfe, they did conjure all Mankind not to offer at the know- 
ing any more than themfelves. 
Upon the whole, my Lord, I defire not You should be a Pa~ 
tron, any further than You are a Judge. For if this {mall 
Effay hash deferved the leaft acceptance, I am fare, that in 
being one, You will be both. I am, 
; My Lord, 
Your Lordfhips moft Faithful 
and Obedient Servant, 
NEHEM#AH GREW. 

