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RIG.732.007
23 Nov 1732:11 (9)
An Apology. Readers, I am sensible sundry complaints have
been made against my paper, that it has hitherto been dull
and flat, as the men of tast term it; for which I must
confess there seems to be some cause. But the world ought
to view a writer, at his first setting out, in the same
light, that a company of dancers wou'd a musician who had
undertaken to play for them upon a new made instrument, that
cou'd not be presently put in tune, without the danger of
being unstrung by too suddain a screw. This wou'd produce
patience, and that musick. But there are besides many
physical reasons why my paper has turn'd out no better: Some
of which, for the satisfaction of my readers, I shall
briefly mention. . .
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