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 And what are your Objections to the Allowance of the Honour which I have ollicited? Why, you have commended the book o warmly, that you hould be ahamed of reading your Name before the Dedication. Indeed, Sir, if the Book itelf doth not make you ahamed of your Commendations, nothing that I can here write will, or ought. I am not to give up my Right to your Protection and Patronage, becaue you have commended my Book: For though I acknowledge o many Obligations to you, I do not add this to the Number; in which Friendhip, I am convinced, hath o little Share: Since that can neither bias your Judgment, nor pervert your Integrity. An Enemy may at any Time obtain your