----=Neque ego illi detrahere ausim, Hærentem Capiti multâ cum Laude Coronam.=[54] But at the same time I cannot but blame him for taxing others with stealing Characters from him, (as he does =Settle= in his =Notes on Morocco=) when he himself does =the same=, almost in all the Plays he writes; and for arraigning his Predecessours for stealing from the =Ancients=, as he does =Johnson=; which tis evident that he himself is guilty of the same. I would therefore desire our Laureat, that he would follow that good Advice which the modest History Professor Mr. =Wheare= gives to the young Academick in his =Antelogium, to shun this, Confidence and Self-love, as the worst of Plagues; and to= consider that =Modesty is it which becomes every Age, and leads all that follow her in the streight, and right Path to solid= =Glory; without it we are hurld down Precepices, and instead of acquiring Honour, become the scorn of Men, and instead of a good Fame, we return loaden with Ignominy and Contempt.=[55] I have not time to examine the Thefts of other Plagiaries in particular, both from the =French= and our =own= Language, and therefore shall onely desire them to consider this Sentence of =Pliny=:[56] =Obnoxii profecto animi, & infelicis ingenii est, deprehendere infurto malle, quam mutuum reddere cum presertim sors fiat ex usurâ=. Althô I condemn =Plagiaries=, yet I would not be thought to reckon as such either =Translators=, or those who =own= what they borrow from other Authors: for as 'tis commendable in any man to advantage the =Publick=; so it is manifest, that those Authors have done so, who have contributed to the Knowledge of the =Unlearned=, by their excellent =Versions=: Yet at the same time I cannot but esteem them as the =worst= of Plagiaries, who steal from the Writings of those of our own Nation. Because he that borrows from the worst =Forreign= Author, may possibly import, even amongst a great deal of trash, =somewhat= of value: whereas the former makes us pay extortion for =that= which was our own before.