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and informed your Ladyship of my real motives for publishing, and I now beg to offer my unfeigned thanks for the permission you have condescendingly granted me to dedicate my simple Poems to you.—Knowing, as I do, your Ladyship's opinion of any thing which might appear complimentary, I dare not express my grateful feelings in the language my heart would dictate; I therefore can only assure your Ladyship that, that heart must be cold and lifeless ere it ceases to remember with gratitude the flattering kindness you haye shewn me.
With fervent prayers for a long conti-
