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TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE

EARL of MORAY.

MY LORD,

This address, I hope, will have nothing of usual dedication except the name. The motives which induce me to request your attention to the following translation, will secure me from offering you any gross incense; which, though it may be agreeable to the great vulgar, must always be offensive to a delicate, and ingenuous mind. I should be loth to be guilty of such an irreverence to you, or myself. The farther I deviate on thisocca-