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The Dedication.

SOPHIA, a Lady endowed with all Princely Accomplishments, and particularly a most Bounteous Patroness of Letters, begs leave now most humbly to offer itself to Your Royal Highness's gracious Acceptance, who so undoubtedly inherit all the Royal and Illustrious Qualities of that Great Lady.

Madam, it addresses itself to Your Royal Highness, .congratulating Your Auspicious Arrival into England, in a Language which bears: a Name that is common bath to the German and English Nations, the SAXON Thiswill