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The Right Hon. EDWARD Lord THURLOW,
Lord High Chancellor of England, &c. &c. &c. &c.

Qui didicit Patriæ quid debeat, & quid Amicis
Quod fit Confcripti, quod Judicis officium, quæ
Partes in bellum miffi Ducis; ille profectò
· Reddere Perfonæ fcit convenientia Cuique.

If you prick us do we not bleed? if you tickle us do we not laugh?
and if you wrong us fhall we not revenge? if we are like you in the
reft, we will resemble you in that. What you teach us, we will exe-
cute; and it thall go hard, but we will better the Inftruction.

SHYLOCK.

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PRINTED BY R. MARCH BANK,

FOR THE COMPANY OF BOOKSELLERS.

MDCCLXXIX.

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DEDICATION.

TO THE

Right Hon. LORD THURLOW,

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR, &c. &c. &c.

My LORD, or may it please your Lordship,

I NEED not acquaint your Lord

ship, that a Publication without a Dedication is as great a Phænomenon as a Minister without Power, a Peer without Principle, a Bifhop without Learning, or a Maid of Honor without Chastity; and that it ftands as little chance of a favourable reception, as a Candidate for a Place, who carries with him no other recommendation than Integrity and Capability. Every one who reforts to the prefs, whether in the character of Author, Editor, or Compiler, decorates his Frontispiece with some illuftrious

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illuftrious name or other, and catches at that opportunity of offering in cenfe to the God of his idolatry. One does it from motives of avarice, to fqueeze from the vain and credulous a few of his fuperfluous GuineasA fecond from motives of fecurity, fhrewdly concluding that the refpect fpontaneously and implicitly given to great perfonages, will protect his Works from the Teeth of Envy, Malignity, and Criticism.-A third, from Vanity, to prove that he cannot be nobody, fince he has the honor of knowing fomebody.Ą fourth, from the most laudable motives to hold up for imitation to the Belle Monde a fample of conjugal Fidelity, and to let their Ladyfhips fee, that a woman may rife above the reft of her fex, without ruining her hufband, and gain admiration without lofing her reputation. And a fifth (to go no further) from Gratitude, to do homage to his patron,

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