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THE QUEEN'S

MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

THE FOLLOWING HISTORICAL RHAPSODY

ON MR. POFE,

THE GREATEST ENGLISH POET OF HIS TIME,

WHO WAS VISITED AND ESTEEMED

BY THE FATHER OF

HER ROYAL CONSORT,

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY HER MOST DUTIFUL

AND OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THOMAS TYERS.

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F I had adopted the hint of an intelligent acquaintance, this Rhapsody would have endeavoured to have found its way to Lord Mansfield and to Lord Marchmont, the two furviving executors and trustees of Mr. Pope. But I declined the thought of addreffing it to any Man living, having obtained the permiffion of inscribing it to the greatest Lady in the three Kingdoms.

The writer hopes, that the influence of her Royal Name will introduce it into the highest company, and that it may have the good fortune of obtaining the more friends, on the account of Her, who has not an enemy in the world. Pro

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