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Epistle Dedicatory. and antiquated, which few Men, none, I believe, of the other Sex have ventured to converse with, since the time when it was the current Language; did not Your 's most wise Judgment, and great Clemency, allow to it a favourable Audience, as the Language, in which Your Earliest Royal, and Pious Progenitors, both laid the Foundation of those Laws, by which You so happily Govern, and in which They received that Orthodox Faith, of which You are the undoubted Defender. And it is humbly presumed, that it will