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 With this detail, I am enible, the publick has very little concern; nor is it obtruded on them from any idle vanity, but merely as a neceary introduction to the following pages.

The ubject on which I am now to trouble you, has one very unpleaing circumtance attending it; that I cannot dicus it without introducing myelf as a principal figure on the canvas. It is, I trut, unneceary to aure you, who have known me o long, that it is the lat ubject which I hould have choen; it has, as you will ee, been forced upon me. However, though from the nature of the diquiition it is impoible for me to keep where I wih to remain, in the back ground, I will promie not to detain you long from much more important and intereting topicks.

Almot all the copies of my edition having been old, an anonymous writer, at the end of fifteen months, finding it a ubject of ufficient notoriety to procure ome attention to an invective againt it in the form of a pamphlet, has lately thought fit to iue one from the pres, fraught with the uual materials of hypercriticim; that is, duly furnihed with unbluhing cavil, fale argument, and fale quotation; with