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Sir,
I Quarrell'd your last in hope you would have retracted your transcendent elogicall con∣mends, which whilst you seem to intend in this, you have by a Rhetoricall Artifice, ad∣ded more fewell to that fire; So that I per∣ceive
whether I write or be silent, complain or acquiesce, I am every way dilemma'd; I must confess to have nor wit nor language enough, to fadome the depth of your abilities, and by con∣sequence am rendred impossibilited to pay you in your own coine, which is of such allay, that I may well say, you have truely found out the Phi∣losophers stone, since you are able to convert any gross matter into the gold of fine language; your prosaick lines are (for excellency) like those me∣tricall ones of Homer, which as they excell in o∣ther points, so they seem to have an easie native slide in them, and to be conducted by a happy Genius. If I had abilitys to expatiate upon this subject, I could not be held a Patelin, but rather a suffragran to truth; what I want words to express, silent admiration shall speak in the thoughts of
Sir,
Your obliged servant, T.B.