PREFACE.
does of Virgil, yet I have outdone them as much in Sincerity. For I have not form'd an Imaginary Poetical Design, but Described a real one: Such a one as is now actually carrying on by a Cabal of restless and turbulent Men, even in the very place where I have laid the Scence.
If then what I have said be true, and the Sense of the honest Part of the Kingdom, the Reader cannot think, any Liberty I have taken Reflecting or Scandalous; for Truth is never so, tho' it may be sometimes Unseasonable. But he must own that I have acquitted the Duty of a good Subject in endeavouring to lay the Enemies of our Constitution. A Constitution whose Government is Projected upon a more refined Policy, and experienced Wisdom, than any in the World. Other Countries labour under the Bondage of Arbitrary Princes, or more Arbitrary Commonwealths. But here the Prerogative of the King and the Liberty of the Subject are a mutual Barrier to each other; and it is not the Fault
