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parent, can be more incorrect than this ſtatement. The truth is, that after a few copes had got abroad, the further ſale was delayed, for ſpecial purpoſes, for a week, at the end of which the publication was continued.—Such, I think, is the ſubſtance of this Quip, for ſo this writer chooſes to denominate ſome of his ſhrewd and ſagacious remarks, though he does not deal much either in cranks or wanton wiles. The difference between being ſuppreſſed for a certain time, and the ſale being delayed, after the original publication, for a week, is not very eaſily diſcovered. The modeſty, however, aſcribed to the author, it muſt be owned, he utterly diſavows.—The grievance ſtated on this occaſion muſt immediately remind you of that complained of by the well-known Edmund Curl, who ſaid Mr. Pope had treated him very unfairly in telling the publick that he had been toſs'd in a blanket, when all the world knew that he had only been toſs'd in a rug.
Though from a very careful peruſal of many contemporary writers, I was enabled to make very large additions to the former comments on our author, and took at leaſt as much pains in illuſtrating his obſcurities as in aſcertaining his text, you will obſerve that
