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To the Right Honourable,
John Lord Vicount Bracly,
Son and Heir apparent to the Earl
of Bridgewater, &c.
John Lord Vicount Bracly,
Son and Heir apparent to the Earl
of Bridgewater, &c.
My Lord,
His Poem, which receiv'd its first occasion of Birth from your Self, and others of your Noble Family, and much honour from your own Person in the performance, now returns again to make a finall Dedication of it self to you. Although not openly acknowledg'd by the Author, yet it is a legitimate off-spring, so lovely, and so much desired, that the often Copying of it hath tir'd my Pen to give my severall friends satisfaction, and brought me to a necessity of producing it to the publike view; and
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