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The Publick, we hope, will excuſe the Delay, under which this Work (not ſo eaſy in Practice, as it ſeemed to be in Theory) has, this long while, laboured; ſince, in the Care and Accuracy of its Compilation, they will find an abundant Compenſation made for the Exerciſe of their Patience.
For the Reader is to know, that thoſe Songs were made in the Time of the Great Rebellion; when that Mad and Enthuſiaſtick Spirit, which then reigned in this Nation, filled us with Murther and Bloodſhed; deſtroyed the beſt of Kings, ſubverted our happy Conſtitution, and introduced a wild State of Anarchy and Confuſion.
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