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A Comparison of the

in all the Parts, a perpetual Coincidence, and Dependence of one upon another; I will venture an Appeal to any learned Critic in this Cause; and if it be a sufficient Reason to alter the common Readings in a Letter, a Word, or a Phrase from the Consideration of the Context, or Propriety of the Language, and call it the Restoring of the Text, is it not a Demonstration that these Poems were made in the same Course of Lines, and upon the same Plan we read them in at present, from all the Arguments, that Connection, Dependence and Regularity can give us? If those Critics, who maintain this odd

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