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Excerpt from The Great Assises: Holden in Parnassus
Needs mull wee thole advantages confefle, Which wee reape from the literary Prelle, A priviledge which our forefathers wanted, Although to us Heaven it benignely granted This engine Of the Mic/es doth dilperfe Arts bell: achievements, both in Prole and Verle It vents with eale, labours of learned braines, And doth the hand quit from a world of paines Thole Wonders, of which elder ages boal't, Had almolt all forgotten been, and loft, If this Eighth Wonder had not been contriv'd. W hereby the other feven have been reviv'd. Your Grace well knowes (i need not to relate) How Typographic doth concerne your fiate, Which lome pernicious heads have lo abus'd, That many wilh it never had been us'd This inl'trument of Art, is now pollel't By fome, who have in Art no interel'c For it is now imploy'd by Paper-walters, By mercenary foules, and Poe'tallers.
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