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DEDICATION.
ever existed a wise and affectionate Friendship and I, there- fore, commit to Your Favour my own humble Tribute to his Memory, and the Verses, which I have preserved, of his Writing wherein Your Lordship's excellent Taste and Learning will discover, that no greater Man had been in the Translating of the elder Poets, if either his Fortune, or his Pleasure, had led him to that Pursuit. Desiring to live in Your Lordship's Favour, I subscribe Myself, in all Truth,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
and faithful Servant,
November 18, 1813.
THURLOW.
