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The Dedication.
 

plead more than a Common Title to this Honour. Your Grace has been pleas'd to make Your self Accessory to the following Scenes, not only by suggesting the most beautiful Incident in them, but by making all possible Provision for the Success of the Whole. Your great Delicacy of Taste in Compositions of this kind, has so assisted this Poem; and the Indulgence of Your Nature has so endeavoured to shorten the great Distance between Your Grace and its Author, that I have been sometimes scarce able to consider You in any other Light, than as one entirely devoted to these Amusements, and pursuing the same Studies with my self.

The World, which is large in Your Praises of another Nature, will be surpriz'd to hear me speak of Your Grace in this manner. They talk of One abounding in all the Grace and Power of Publick Eloquence, and eminently furnish'dwith

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