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Show ' . II ' • ). ( ,, TO Tl-1 E RIGHT HONOURABLE T ·H 0 MA·S EARL OF · ~emb~oke and ;ffl_ont,no~erp, 'Baron Hs;:rbert of Cardiff, & c. Lord-Lieutenant of the C(Juilty of Wilts, and One of 'I'h.eir Majejlies moft Honourable Privy Council. My L' 0 1\:D, · . T HisTreatife, wlikh is gro}Vh tip under your Lordlbip's E:ye,a~d If£~ veritur,~ : intofhe_ \:V orlc:!'~y ;x~:mr Ortfer, does ·now, by a natural kind of Right, come to yoilt Lordlbip for that Ptoeection, which you feveral years fince ptDmifed it. 'Tis not tgar I think any Name, how great foever, fet ~t the beginning of a Book, will be a~le to cover the Faults are to be found:it. Things in print niuJl ·Jland and fall by their own Worth , o~· the Reader's Fancy. But there being nothing more to be defired for Truth, than a fair unprejudiced Hea. ring) no body is more likely td 'procure . me that, than your Lordfhip, who are 'allow~d to have got fo intimate an Acquaintance with h~r, in her more retirdd ~ecefJes. Your Lordfhip is known t6 have fo ,far ady::~ nced , your Speculations in the moil abilracr aHd gener~JCnowledge of Things, beyond the ordinary reach or cofi1. A 2 mon |