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Contents of the Fourth Volume.

The Second Book of the Satires of Horace, Sat. I.

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The Second Book of the Satires of Horace, Sat. II. ·

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The First Book of the Epiftles of Horace, Ep. I. 101

The first Book of the Epiftles of Horace, Ep. VI.

The Second Book of the Epiftles of Horace, Ep. II.

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The first publication of this Epifle.

HIS paper is a fort of bill of complaint, begun many years fince, and drawn up by fnatches, as the several occafions offered. I had no thoughts of publishing it, till it pleafed fome Perfons of Rank and Fortune [the Authors of Verfes to the Imitator of Horace, and of an Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court] to attack, in a very extraordinary manner, not only my Writings (of which, being public, the Public is judge) but my Perfon, Morals, and Family, whereof, to those who know me not, a truer information may be requifite. Being divided between the neceffity to fay fomething of myfelf, and my own laziness to undertake fo awkward a tafk, I thought it the shortest way to put the laft hand to this Epistle. If it have any thing pleafing, it will be that by which I am most defirous to please, the Truth and the Sentiment; and if any thing offenfive, it will be only to thofe I am leaft forry to offend, the vicious or the ungenerous.

Many will know their own pictures in it, there being not a circumstance but what is true; but I have,

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for the most part, fpared their Names, and they may efcape being laughed at, if they please.

I would have fome of them know, it was owing to the requeft of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is infcribed, that I make not as free use of theirs as they have done of mine. However, I fhall have this advantage, and honour, on my fide, that whereas, by their proceeding, any abuse may be directed at any man, no injury can poffibly be done by mine, fince a namelefs Character can never be found out, but by its truth and likeness.

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