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HESE two Poems (as they have been lately Revised and Corrected by the Author) accidentally coming into my Hands, I thought I could not do a better piece of Service, than to give the World an accurate Edition of them. They gained so great an Esteem, even when they were Printed from Incorrect Copies, that I cannot doubt this Edition will be extreamly acceptable to all Judges of such Works. I do not presume to know any thing of the Politick part of them, or what particular Persons are Obliged or Disobliged, and therefore I hope I shall give no offence in Publishing them.

The Characters are already sufficiently known to the World, and this Edition will not make them much more so, but only make the Poems appear more Correct, and that Justice every Body must own ought to be done to them.

Rh