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The NINTH EDITION,

Much more correct than any of the former, with several
Additions and Improvements, by the AUTHOR.

LONDON:

Printed for HENRY LINTOT.
MDCCLIV.

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Sir JOHN EYLES, Bart.

Member of Parliament for, and Alderman of, the City of London, and Sub-. Governor of the South-Sea Company.

SIR,

F Tragick Poetry be, as Mr. Dryden has fomewhere faid, the moft excellent and moft useful Kind of Writing; the more extenfively useful the Moral of any Tragedy is, the more excellent that Piece must be of its Kind.

I hope I fhall not be thought to infinuate, that this, to which I have prefumed to prefix your Name, is fuch: That depends on its Fitnefs to anfwer the End of Tragedy, the excitin

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