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Rh of the Time which I have employed in compoing it: another Matter which is may be neceary to remind you of: ince there are certain Actions of which you are apt to be extremely forgetful: but of thee I hope I hall always have a better Memory than yourelf.

Laly, it is owing to you that the Hitory appears what it now is. If there be in this Work, as ome have been pleaed to ay, a tronger Picture of a truly benevolent Mind than is to be found in any other, who that knows you, and a particular Acquaintance of yours, will doubt whence that Benevolence hath been copied? The World will not, I believe, make me the