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THE

DEDICATION.

TO THE

Worthy, Daring, Adventurous, Thrice-renown'd, and Victorious Captain Lemuel Gulliver.

SHALL a Poet find a Patron, and not a Lunatick? Let it not be said, Gulliver's alive, or the Laputians had e're now crush'd us, by coming down to mourn him; yet his Lustre dazzles; he cannot be conceal'd: His Fame rings loudly in the Moon: To Clods of Earth I tell it.

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