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PREFACE

Of the Publifher of the Surreptitious
Edition, 1755.

WE

E prefume we want no apology to the reader for · this publication, but fome may be thought needful to Mr Pope: however, he cannot think our offence fo great as theirs, who first feparately published what we have here but collected in a better form and order. As for the letters we have procured to be added, they ferve but to compleat, explain, and fometimes fet in a true light thofe others, which it was not in the writer's, or our power to recal..

This collection hath been owing to several cabinets: Some drawn from thence by accidents, and others (even of thofe to ladies) voluntarily given. It is to one of that fex we are beholden for the whole correfpondence with H. C. Efq; which letters being lent her by that Gentleman, he took the liberty to print; as appears by the following, which we shall give at length, both as it is Something carious, and as it may ferve for an apology for ourfelves.

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