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Their Praise,		Pag. 91.
A Maxim concerning Wit,		ibid.
The Design of Expression,		92.
The Reason of Arts and Ornaments,		93.
They are founded in Nature,		ibid.
Embelishment of Style,		94.
Wherein its Commendation lieth,		95.
Rules or the Ornaments and Illustration of Style proposed,		ibid.
The first Thing required in a just Style, is a perfect Mastery of the language we write in,		96.
Wherein a perfect Mastery doth consist,		97.
Of the Purity and Idiom of Language,		98.
Caution against Mixtures with foreign Tongues,		99.
To repair the Decays of Language,		101.
Character of the English Tongue,		103.
Reviving old Words recommended,		104.
The second Thing required, Plainness and Perspicuity,		105.