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LETTER

TO THE

PUBLISHER,

Occafioned by the first correct

Edition of the DUNCIAD.

I

T is with pleasure I hear, that you have

procured a correct copy of the DUNCIAD, which the many furreptitious ones have rendered fo neceffary; and it is yet with more, that I am informed it will be attended with a COMMENTARY: A Work fo requifite, that I cannot think the Author himself would have omitted it, had he approved of the first appearance of this Poem.

Such Notes as have occurred to me I herewith fend you: You will oblige me by inferting them amongst those which are, or will be, tranfmitted to you by others; fince not only the Author's friends, but even strangers, appear engaged by humanity, to take fome care of an Orphan of fo much genius and spirit, which its parent feems to have abandoned from the very beginning, and

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