O N SEVERAL OCCASIONS: By MATTHEW PRIOR Efq. A NEW EDITION; With fome Additions which are not LONDON, Printed for T. JOHNSON, To the Right Honourable L I Ο Ν EARL of EL, Dorfet and Middlesex. I T looks like no great Compliment to your Lordship, that I prefix your Name to this Epiftle, when in the Preface I declare the Book is publish'd almost against my inclination. But in all cafes, my Lord, you have an hereditary right to whatever may be call'd mine. Many of the following pieces were written by the command of your excellent Father; and moft of the reft, under his protection and patronage. The particular felicity of your birth, my Lord, the natural endowments of your mind, (which, without fufpicion of flattery, I may tell you are very great) the good education with which these parts have been improved, and your coming into the World and feeing Men very early, make us expect from your * Lord |