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The Address.

not be interpreted any Singularity, but such, as may render Your Lordship more Eminent, and Distinguished in the World.

The great Obligations I have to those of Your Illustrious Family incline me to make some Acknowledgment, and since I am not capable of doing it to them, I have chosen this Way to give Your Lordship a Token of the great Honour I have for the House of Rutland; and if am of any Service to Your Lordship, I shall gratify a particular Inclination of my own to serve You.

Your Lordship's Years begin to make You capable of Refle-

ction,