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To the Right Honourable

Hugh Lord Clifford,

Baron of Chudleigh.

 

My Lord,

Have found it not more difficult to Translate Virgil, than to find such Patrons as I desire for my Translation. For tho' England is not wanting in a Learned Nobility, yet such are my unhappy Circumstances, that they have confin'd me to a narrow choice. To the greater part, I have not the Honour to be known; and to some of them I cannot shew at present, by any publick Act, that grateful Respect which I shall ever bear them in my