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Which being backed by Reason more strong in him now,and a riper Taste of the Pleasures of Learning, which,m ust gain the Heart of a sensible Man ; and these his Go-vernor always took care to place in so good a Light, thatby Degrees he made him perfectly in Love with Know-ledge ; in the Pursuit of which he al ways spent those Hourswhich he sometimes stole from the Witty and the Fair.

I do not at all doubt, Msdam, but your Grace isquite tired with this Part of his Lordship’s Life, whereinLove and Beauty had so little Share; you must, Madam*think these so many tedious Impertinencies ; yet, sinceyou have obliged me to write a Life, you must undergothe Penance of those Modes and Forms which the Task,your own Authority imposed, requires. He has all thiswhile been cultivating those sine Parts, and nouristiingthatgreat Genius, which is now to appear in the Drawing-Room among the Ladies, with Force not inferior to theirEyes, in their gayest Dawn, but of larger Extent in Du-ration and Power. Till now, he has been laying up aFund for all that Spirit and Wit, which afterwards wasthe Terror of Knaves, Fools, and little Pretenders of allSorts, and the Delight of the Witty, Honest, and Meri-torious.

He now, Madam, comes from Travel, at the earlyAge of Eighteen, when other more backward Gentlemenare scarce fit to set out. But my Lord was not to takeMeasures from the common Race of Men ; he wasdistinguished sufficiently by Nature from most Persons,who could therefore be no Rule to him. His Quality,Spirit, and Inclination, soon led him to Court, wi h theAdvantage of such Endowments as few brought thither'For his Person was graceful, tho’ tall and slender ; hisMien and Shape having something extremely agreeable;and sot his Mind, it discovered Charms not to be with-stood :