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T will not become me, to adde any Attributes to a Title, which has a Fulnes of Lutre from his Majeties ''Denomination. ''

In thee Rude Collections, which are onely the Gleanings of my private diverions in broken hours, it may appear, that many Minds and Hands are in many places indutriouly employed, under Your Countenance and by Your Example, in the puruit of those Excellent Ends, which belong to Your Heroical Undertakings.

''Some of thee are but the Intimations of large Compilements. And ome Eminent Members of Your Society, have obliged the Learned World with Incomparable Volumes, which are not herein mention'd, becaue they were finiht, and in great Reputation abroad, before I entred upon this Taske. And no mall Number are at present engaged for thoe weighty Productions,'' which