& which I am/my Charity is troubled to see, arrogated by [ 'th' deleted] many that want it; & by too many that have it, made but a Pander to other's['o' altered from 'r'] Pride or their owne Lust's!

[ 'Nor do these People use to succeed better in' deleted] And much of kinne to their Verses/Poetry <is>[replacing 'are'] their Prose: <very many of> their as much flatter'd as flattering Letters of <Love &> Complement, being [ 'oftentimes' deleted] but Prologues to & Paraphrases of the Subscription /Your Humble Servant/ & the Sense of these <few> Words, I desire You should thinke I can write well & am Your humble Servant: which made a certaine Lady say, that Give her but leave to barre halfe a score Words, & she would spoile all the Fine Letters of [ 'the T' deleted] our Youth; & sure <to expresse> the Sense of these few Words, [ 'I am Yo' deleted] I can &c, being the Drift & substance of <most of>[replacing 'all'] these [ 'Cus' deleted] Ceremoniall Papers, [ 'those that <looking upon t> esteeming Words that devis'd <but> to expresse our Thoughts, of which they should be the Images;' deleted] they that looking upon Words/Expressions as the Images of Thoughts, esteeme them not by their Greatnesse or Gawdynesse but Resemblance; are apt to looke upon these oftentimes [ 'fa' deleted] servile <&>[replacing 'as well as'] Tedious Amplificators['ors' inserted, replacing 'ions, a', deleted] but as <poore>[insertion in margin ] Men that <are wont>[replacing 'Love'] to pay a Peece in twenty shillings. [ '<Tho it be not>[replacing 'And indeed']' deleted] [ 'tis not so uneasy to say finer Things <write high Complements>, when we care for nothing in our Complements' deleted]. Tho indeed it require/ there need/ no such greate Wit to write high Complements, when we <need> care for nothing in our <new cookd>[insertion in margin ] Complements but that they be high enough; & besides that those in whom Fancy is the Predominant Faculty, relish <like Leopards>[insertion in margin ] those Writings most where Fancy, <reignes>[replacing 'cheefly/ most appeares']; it is [ 'le' deleted] not uneasy for men to write acceptably on Subjects where they are not ty'd to speake either Reason or Truth; & as 'tis easy for them/ Painters[ending altered in composition] to show a faire Complexion that [ 'w' deleted] scruple not to do any thing to show it, & desire but to appeare handsom/ 'tis easy for writers to delight, where they propose themselves no other End, & allow themselves [ 'all' deleted] any thing they judge conducive to it] whereas those that <expecting to be call'd to account by has both Men for their <Lives>[replacing 'Time & Lives'] by God both for their owne Time & their Readers.>[insertion in margin ] are confin'd to Write nothing but what is Usefull, & what they can make Good, have a much harder Taske on't.

Like a ceeld Pidgeon that flies the higher for being blinded Love, like Warre, that raiseth soldiers of Fortune/ common & ruines Estated Persons/ men & Ruines Men of Fortune, warmes and refines/raises [ 'quickens smaller' deleted] lesser Wits, as it infatuates the Great ones. thrive

Where one may end when one will, & is oblig'd to write but what he finds he can write well.

Where a man shall be beleev'd <evn>[replacing 'tho'] when he dos not beleeve himself

Where a man is not oblig'd to beleeve what he says not say but what he thinkes will be beleev'd.

Complection from health & not from Painting