To the Right Honourable the Lords and Ladies, and also to the Honoured Gentry of both kinds, that have been so Generous to be Subscribers to these Volumes of Songs; which end with some Orations, Copys of Verses, Prologues and Epilogues.
My Lords, Ladies and Gentry,
I once thought to have been particular in my Dedication, and have assign’d it to one or two of the Nobility or Gentry; but considering that it would
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