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most confiderable English Poets. As the first Volume of this Work is dedicated to my Lord Lanfdown, the only Nobleman now living, who has written in the Dramatick way; fo this Performance has a fort of Right to be Protected by Your Grace, the Nobleman now living who has moft Excell'd in the other Parts of Poetry. Hexcept the two excellent Tragedies of Cæfar and Brutus, as to the Dramatick, because Your Grace has not beeen pleased to publish them.

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To this I may add further, that if all the Poets, whofe Writings I have enumerated, many whereof have long fince feparately implor'd Your Protection, were yet living, they would approve my Choice in Addreffing to Your Grace, as to the most proper Patron for a Work of this Nature: They would all jointly and unanimoufly trust the Decifion of their Fame to Your Grace's Judgment; and Chaucer, Spen Jer, and Milton would ftand by the Determination of the Duke of Buckingham.

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You have Flourish'd, my Lord, in the Court of our English Auguftus, and, in the Progress of Poetry, come neareft to a Horace and a Virgil of any of your Time: A mafterly Genius and great Excel lency are unquestionably Your Grace's Talents. As a Poet and Critick, whoever has a true Tafte of polite Literature, muft own You have always Excell'd: This is univerfally allow'd by Perfons of very different Principles, from the Great Earl of Rofcommon,to the loweft Judge: And as Your Grace's Iffue, the

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Noble Marquifs of Norman by, blefs'd with Life, will tranfmit Your Wirtues to Po fterity, fo will Your Works, the Offspring of Your Mind make Your Memory Immor

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vrez olla and olderwonoP vAsito the other Great Qua lities and Endowments of Your Grace's Mind, our Highest Court of Judicature receives Honour from Your being a Member of it. How often has Your Grace's Eloquence prevail'd in that Auguft Affembly, and Your fin

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gle Oration influenc'd, in an English as CICERO in a Romish Senate? And Your Grace has not only Adorn'd the important Station of Prefident of the Council, at an extraordinary Juncture more than ufually Honourable, but also very much fupported the Dignity of the Great Offices of Lord Steward and Chamberlain of the Houfhold; and by Your Government in the latter, the English Theatre truly Flourish'd, 12.

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