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Show The Epfile ^Dedicatory. may excufe m y F6lfyf.'tiy laying m y Maid en-head at Your Door. 'Nor durft I havi Attempted thus far into the W.orid, had noi the LaurfcatV bwa; feen Tecur'd'riie, mai taining the Out-works, while I lay fafe in trencht within his Lines 5 and Malice, I], nature and Cenfure were forc'd to grin % a Diftance. If I have not performed mi Part in this Piece* the Excufe of a youni Beginner will pafs with the reafonable Pari of Mankind: But when I look uponYoJ Lordfliip, and join Your Princely Birti to the early Promifes of manly Virtue whicj Y o u daily give us (if Y o u communicate a influencing Beam on m e ) (as You muj fliine on all) I dare, without the Gift J Prophefie, venture to fay, the Infpiratia may refine m y Thoughts, to fome moi worthy Offering. Could m y Vanity car: m e to the Hopes of fucceeding in Thin of this kind* I a m confident m y fureft VVs would be, to draw my Characters fro You, in w h o m the faireft Images of N ture are fliewn in little: Your Royal E ther's Greatnefs, Majeftick Awfulnefs, W and Coodnels, are promis'd all in You The Ifijlle Dedicatory. /our Mother's conquering Beauty triumphs [gain in You: Nature has bleii Y o u with 1 Royal Parentage, and Fortune been juft & You in a Princely Education: And no-ing is wanting now to crown our Hopes, »ut Time, to make You in England what "itus was in Rome, the Delight of Man- :ind> which that You may prove, fliall Iyer be the conftant Willi of, SIR, |