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Excerpt from The Poems of Dryden, Vol. 3
I am not vain enough to board that I have deferved the value of (0 illufirious a line; but my fortune is the greater, that for three defcents they have been pleafed to difiinguilh my poems from thofe of other men 5 and have accordingly made me their peculiar care. Llay it be permitted me to fay, That as your grandfather and father were cheril'ned and adorned with honours by two fuccellive monarchs, fo I have been elieemed and patronized by the grandfather, the father, and'the fou, defcended from one of the molt antient, molt con fpicuous, and molt deferring families in Europe.
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