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DEDICATION.

their native Country: and to those Virtues, more than to the private Friendship with which your Grace has long honoured me, I make this Offering of the few poetical Pieces which were the Produce of my leisure, but some of my most pleasant, Hours: your Grace will be able to distinguish those which have been printed before from those which now make their first Appearance: and I number among the Feli-

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