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P.Aveline Sculp

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Printed for W. WILSON, No.6, Dame-ftreet.

M, DCC, LXXVIII.

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As it is natural to have a fondness for what has coft us much time and attention to produce, I hope your Grace will forgive an endeavour to preserve this work from oblivion,

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by affixing to it your memorable name.

I fhall not here prefume to mention the illustrious paffages of your life, which are celebrated by the whole age, and have been the subject of the most fublime pens; but if I could convey you to pofterity in your private character, and defcribe the ftature, the behaviour, and aspect of the Duke of Marlborough, Iqueftion not but it would fill the reader. with more agreeable images, and give him a more delightful entertainment than what can be found in the following, or any other book.

One cannot indeed, without offence to yourself, observe, that you excel the reft of mankind in the leaft, as well as the greatest

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