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tongues of the envious and the ignorant: But the worst of it is, those who use this courtship intend it for no other; and know that they are no more secure under the title of their patron than a man in battle is behind a target made with a paper picture of Saint George.

But, my Lord, though I contemn those silly, romantic kinds of flatteries, yet I have a real need of your Lordship’s name, which, without this vanity, I may use in my defense: since the angry gentleman who gave occasion to the following discourse,