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Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 63: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
May you enjoy, my Lord, through the whole courfe of this and many more years, that found health of mind and body, which your important labours for the publick fo much want, and fo jufily merit! And may you foon have the fatisfa?ion to fee, what I know you fo ardently wifh, this deftru�tive war, however necef fary on our part, concluded by a fafe and lafiing peace! Then, and not till then, all the noble arts, no lefs ufe ful than ornamental to human life, and that now lan guilh, may again fiourilh, under the eye and encou ragement of thofe few, who think and feel as you do, for the advantage and honour of Great Britain. I am, with the fincereft attachment.
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