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Excerpt from Letters From a Late Eminent Prelate to One of His Friends
What you divine of the new edition of the Para-l dise-lost, just now upon the point of appearing, may perhaps prove too true. I agree with you, the editor prejudiced nobody in his favour by his specimen. He was all-advised to give such a one. I have indeed, as you say, raised a spirit without designing it. And while I thought I was only conjecturing, it seems I was conjuring. So that I had no sooner evoked the name of Shake spear from the rotten monument of his former editions, than a crew of Strange devils, and more grotesque than any of those he laughs at in the old faroes, came chattering, mewing, and grinning round about me.
The Oxford man you mention, who writ some thing about Shakespear, and would write about Jonson, is a pert dunce, the most troublesome sort of vermin in all Parnassus.
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