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TO THE

Right Honourable

WILLIAM,

Lord Marquiss of

HARTINGTON.

My LORD,
Every Body is now so full of Business, that things of this kind, which are generally taken for the entertainment of leisure Hours only, look like Impertinence and Interruption. I am sure it is a reason why I ought to beg your Lordship's Pardon, for troubling you with this Tragedy; Not but that Poetry has always been, and will still be the Entertainment of all wise Men, that have any delicacy in their Knowledge; Yet at so Critical a Juncture as this is, I must confess I think your Lordship ought to giveintirely