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The Dedication.
 

Pleasures, sometimes unknown to Persons of Distinction in that Scene: Who can divide the longest Day into a Variety of Polite and Useful Studies, and appoint the Great Men of Antiquity their stated Hours, to receive (if I may so speak) their Audience of Him: Who is an excellent Master of their History in particular, and observing how Nature in a Course of Years is apt to come round again, and tread in her own Footsteps; Has a Happiness in applying the Facts or Characters of Antient to Modern Times; which requires a beautiful Mixture of Learning, and Genius; and a Mind equally knowing in Books and Men: Who can carry from his Studies such a Life into Conversation, that Wine seems only an Interruption of Wit: Who has as many Subjects to talk of, as proper Matter on those Subjects, as much Wit to adorn that Matter, and as many Languages to produce it so adorn'd, as anyof

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