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A SHORT

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This Advertiſement, Reader, invites thee not to my Lodging, for I would give thee no ſuch Directions, my Nature being more Melancholy, then Sociable. I would onely tell thee how Charitable I am, for having purpoſely omitted ſome Neceſſaries in my former Diſcourſe, I have upon ſecond Thoughts reſolved againſt that ſilence.

There is abroad a bold ignorance, for Philoſophie hath her Confidents, but in a ſenſe different from the Madams. This Generation I have ſometimes met withall, and leaſt they ſhould ride, and repent, I thought it not amiſs to ſhew them the Præcipieces. The ſecond Philoſophicall

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