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''HE following Sheets were the Product of some leisure Hours in the Country, about three or four Years ago. They were written in the Year 1709, and not transcribed till the latter End of the next Summer, as the Reader will find by several Passages up and down, which will clear the Time, and save the Critics the Trouble of making any Mistakes in their Conjectures. For'' Rh