Dedication.
lessen the Value I have for the rest of my Noble Subscribers, I have desisted in that particular; and hope this General Address will more exert my Duty, and increase your Favour.
I am oblig'd first then to acknowledge my Obligations for your ready and willing Compliance: And also secondly to declare, that to oblige ye, and compleat your Diversion, I have added above a Hundred new Pieces to the Publick Stock, and hope, as the rest have generally had Applause above others of this kind, they will happily be receiv'd by you when read or perform'd in your merry and vacant Hours.
I have (with a great deal of Trouble and Pains) made some part of this Collection, and render'd ye many of the Old Pieces which were thought well of in former Days, and consider'd for their Pleasureand
