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''Hese Books of Constancy, which I both began and finished in the midst of the troubles of my Country, I thought meet to dedicate, and devote to you; the great Sena­tours of so great a City. Your Dignity, Prudence, and Vir­tue, were the motives to it; to­gether with that humanity of'' Rh