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HE reader will probably expect, that, before I present him with the following miscellany, I should give some account of the pieces contained in it; and should prove the authenticity of those Eastern originals, from which I profess to have translated them: indeed so many productions, invented in France, have been offered to the publick as genuine translations from the languages of Asia, that I should have wished,