& 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 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/ Paintersending 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 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