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It has been frequently

observed that a confidcrable part of the works of our English Poets will

in another century

become in a great

measure unintelligible, for want of being accompanied with Notes; or at leaft that they will cease to be read with pleasure, when so many of their allusions cease to be understood. Some our greater English Classics have

of

been fecured from fuch a fate, and

b

are