An Essay Concerning Parliaments/Dedication

by Samuel Johnson

TO THE

Barons and Commons

Of ENGLAND

In Parliament Aſſembled.

May it please your Honours.

Yov either knew more of the Matter contained in theſe Papers, or leſs, or the ſame. If you knew more, I ſhould be glad to ſee it in your Laws which you mean to Eſtabliſh: Or which is better, in your Declaration of the Conſtitution. If not; no Body can find fault with my poor Office of bearing a Light, but they that have very ill Eyes.

I am the known Servant of You,
and of my whole Country,

 

Samuel Johnſon.