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HEN I first set pen to Paper to handle this subject, I had not the least thought of the Press; nor of erecting my self into an Author''. I only discharged my memory hastily of some things which I had seen in Italy; and wrapt up that untimely Embrio in five sheets of paper, for the use of a noble person, who set me that task. Yet this Embrio likeing the person for whom it was conceived, obliged me to lick it over and over again, and bring it into better form. Second thoughts, and succeeding voyages into Italy, have finished it at last; and have made it what it is; A compleat Voyage, and an exact Itinerary through ''Italy.

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