DEDICATED TO.

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

Qui didicit Patriæ quld 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 rest, we will resemble you in that. What you teach us, we will exccute; and it fhall go hard, but we will better the Instruction.

SHYLOCK.

LONDON:

Printed for G. KEARSLY, N° 46, FLEET-STREET.
M.DCC.LXXIX.

DEDICATION.

TO THE

Right Hon. LORD THURLOW,

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

My LORD, or may it please your Lordship,

I

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