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 almot any other Compoition in the whole Number, when ung with a proper Grace and Air, be found to have.

What the incomparable Butler has done, by repreenting the Factors for Rebellion, and the vile Pretenders to Religion of former Ages, in their proper and native Dres, in order to prevent the Nation from relaping into the like Ditraction; that, have we endeavoured to do in the following Collection, viz. To infue a Spirit of Loyalty into our Fellow-Subjects, and to make Faction and Hypocriy for ever ahamed to hew their Heads again. And tho’ we are not inenible that we may incur the Dilike of ome, yet this gives us the les Concern, both becaue we are concious of the Goodnes of our Deign, and have the Sentiments of the Poet to upport us under it.