ABSTRACT
I was very much surpriz’d when your Servant saluted me from so Illustrious a personage; but when he produced those noble Volumes as intended Testimony of your Ladiships respect, the unexpectedness of so great an honour made me suspect the Messenger of a mistake, and that he presented me with what was meant fitter for the Colledge, or at least to some more worthy and considerable person than myself. But he persisting still in the same story, my doubts were swallowed up into admiration of your Ladyship’s singular and unparalleled goodness; which seems to me a Corrival with that excellency of your Wit, and to seek an equal share of Glory in searching out Objects of such condescending Acts of Civility and Bounty in these obscure corners of Academical Retirement, as the other in piercing into the greatest difficulties and the most dark and abstruse Recesses of Philosophy. 1
