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RIGHT HONOURABLE,

N the midt of all the Difficulties, and ditracting Debates that too much harras and fatigue you about National Settlements, and Affairs of the nicet, and mot weighty Signification, permit an Humble Stranger, to interrupt you a little with ome thing diverting.

Thoe that have repreented the Deign of it, before it came to your View, as a Party affair, will find themelves o mitaken, that, I doubt not, they will acknowledge they have done ome other Gentlemen wrong beides the Author.

He has endeavoured to pay a Debt of Jutice here to the Scots Nation: If he has not dicharg'd it fully, he beggs you will pleae to accept of this in part, as Wit come sin, you hall find him Honet and willing to pay the Remainder.

RIGHT HONOURABLE,

I have Nothing to do here with the prefent Diputes; I am orry to ee o much differing about uniting, and more, to ee o much uniting about differing; but 'tis nothing to me, and les, if that can be, to my Poem: All I have aid of Scotland and Scots Men, will, I hope, be true to the Worlds End, whether there be an Union or no.

The Temper of your People, the Bravery of your Soldiers, the Antiquity of your Families, and the Characters of your Perons are the ame, and will be the ame to all Ages, let the preent Affair go which way it will.

If any thing in this Book has a Repect to uniting at all, 'tis but in General, as Peace and Union between two Siter Nations mult be deireable to all that wih well to both; but here is not one Word of Terms nor Times, 'tis none of my Buines.

And this I do on purpoe, that if poible, this Book might oblige all ides, and none of the Gentlemen for whoe Honour and Country it is wrote, hould meet with any thing to hock their Reading, on account of the preent Party Strife in this place.