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 In E/]s thin: Right vorfiilful N the prent great and general eonffon, gratefful remembrance of your beh&or Sir xn Bet revives my drooping fpirirs; for I hope. that whil ilI.min&d men throw the trons of our Church into dungeons, I, who am a mi- nitier of it, may, by your firour, find refuge under King tfred's roof. How, alas are the mols of the Cogv cbang'd Or widowed Ohur& now f:ntibly feels its lofsi our Faith laments the want o' her Defender, and Relion, being overca in a cloud of impiety, the fanatical uncleminers of creep out of their dens and caverns, and fir of all oot their arrows aDin our univerfity: never. thdefs, if any one igilance could have defended the cred cau of learning, yours wout ctainly tare done it. ow oldly you eonfulted ts honour, whil th 0 in authoriq thunder'd again us, thi univety all wime f you; and the Most sos gxlu, whom you rometime re crea- ted, fixall, one time or oth=, reward yo merito- rious eondu. appy are they who have fuch an illurious ample before ,heir ey?] more ppy they, who by )'our precepts are tram up to virtuel but moR happy ould I be, i[ you would eeem me woth to be chofen into the number of thole who tell forth your prais[ So gratefully will i acknow- ledge this obligation, th I promire ro promote, as much as in me lies, the good of the college, and o 3e a thorough.aed onform to your ray aio;Is, I woOiful four orip'  buble etitloner;

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