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am now come to the Conclusion of this Work: I had Thoughts to have given a longer Preface to it, intimating the true End and Design of it: But I think 'tis better in the Form of a Conclusion: For when can a Work be better explain'd than after it is done?

I can find but two Objections that can lie against this Undertaking, or the Performance of it; after the strictest Inquiry into every Part of it, and, as Author, I think my self pretty clear in them Both. Of which the impartial Reader is to be the Judge.

1. the Satyr be Just.

2. the Manner be Justifiable.

indeed the Satyr is not just, the Author has done nothing, and can have nothing to say why he should not lie under the worst of Censure; but he is under no Care upon that Subject: Even the most Innocent will hardly enter upon the Point with me, or venture to say,