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HE Publick, we hope, will excue the Delay, under which this Work (not o eay in Practice, as it eemed to be in Theory) has, this long while, laboured; ince, in the Care and Accuracy of its Compilation, they will find an abundant Compenation made for the Exercie of their Patience.

For the Reader is to know, that thoe Songs were made in the Time of the Great Rebellion; when that Mad and Enthuiatick Spirit, which then reigned in this Nation, filled us with Murther and Bloodhed; detroyed the bet of Kings, ubverted our happy Contitution, and introduced a wild State of Anarchy and Confuion. Rh