Note 8 — ⟨Prefixed to Clievelandi Vindiciae, 16771⟩ To the Right Worshipful and Reverend Francis Turner, D.D., Master of St. John's College in Cambridge, and to the Worthy Fellows of the same College.
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We will leave them therefore to the most proper vengeance, to humour themselves with the perusal of their own poems: and leave the barber to rub their thick skulls with bran8 until they are fit for musk. Only we will leave this friendly advice with them; that they have one eye upon John Tradescant's executor,9 lest among his other Minims of Art and Nature he expose their slight conceits: and another upon the Royal Society, lest they make their poems the counterbalance when they intend to weigh air.