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4 fac-simile made, shows what stars were supposed to be in the ascendant at the time; and such of my readers as do not disdain a study which



engaged the attention and ruled not unfrequently the actions of vigorous-minded men, like Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury and the poet Dryden, may find more meaning in the state of the heavenly bodies at her birth than I have as yet succeeded in detecting.