MUS

Si quid novifti rectius iftis,
Candidus imperti ; fi non, his utere mecum.

HORAT.

The SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for W. Lewis in Ruffel-Street Covent-

Garden. MDCCXIII.

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E S SAY

ON

CRITICISM

'TIS

IS hard to fay, 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 Senfe.
Some few in that, but Numbers err in this,
Ten Cenfure wrong for one who Writes amifs;
A Fool might once himself alone expofe,
Now One in Verfe makes many more in Profe.