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To the Right Honourable

CHARLES

LORD VISCOUNT

TOWNSHEND;

Late one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State,

AND

Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, &c.

,

Beg leave to publish the following Poems under your Patronage: A Present, I confess, unworthy of it, and of little value, excepting what gratitude gives it: But, I fear, it may be esteem'd a Boast