I am told came from the Mouth of a great
Orator, in a public Coffee-House, left this Blunder as it stood in the first
Edition. I will not have the Vanity to apply to any thing in this Work, the
Observation which M. Dacier makes in her Preface to her Aristophanes. Je tiens
pour une Maxime constante qu'une Beauté médiocre plait plus generalement qu'une
Beauté sans défaut. Mr. Congreve hath made such another Blunder in his Love for
Love, where Tattle tells Miss Prue, She should admire him as much for the Beauty
he commends in her, as if he himself was possest of it.
 
6 Whoever the Reader pleases.
 
7 All Hounds that will hunt Fox or other Vermin, will hunt a Piece of rusty
Bacon trailed on the Ground.
 
8 Meaning perhaps Ideas.
 
9 Lest this should appear unnatural to some Readers, we think proper to acquaint
them, that it is taken verbatim from very polite Conversation.