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 Yet urely you might have gratified my Ambition, from this ingle Confidence, that I hall always prefer the Indulgence of your Inclinations to the Satisfaction of my own. A very trong Intance of which I hall give you in this Addres; in which I am determined to follow the Example of all other Dedicators, and will conider not what my Patron really deerves to have written, but what he will be bet pleaed to read.

Without further Preface then, I here preent you with the Labours of ome Years of my Life. What Merit thee Labours have is already known to yourelf. If, from your favourable Judgment, I