Ovid

Compassion for the Gentleman who writes the following Letter, should not

prevail upon me to fall upon the Fair Sex, if it were not that I find

they are frequently Fairer than they ought to be. Such Impostures are

not to be tolerated in Civil Society; and I think his Misfortune ought

to be made publick, as a Warning for other Men always to Examine into

what they Admire.

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