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 world, and distinguished for the cultivation of manners, polite arts and literature.

are the several considerations that have induced me to present you with this performance. Happy should I have thought myself, if a little more leisure had enabled me to render it somewhat more worthy your notice. Such as it is, however, I request you to accept it as a small testimony of my personal regard and affection for you. Whatever may be the merit or success of the work itself, I shall always rejoice that it has given me an opportunity of telling the world, how much I respect your character, and what an high value I place upon your friendship.