THE very favourable opinion that your GRACE was pleafed to exprefs of the first part of this work, encourages me to fet forth this laft under your patronage and protection. This laft is the most difficult, but yet it has been to me the most entertaining part of all. How it may approve itfelf to your GRACE and others, I cannot pretend to fay: but having been perufed by the fame three eminently learned perfons as the former volume, it may be prefumed on that account to be lefs unfit for me to offer, and for Your GRACE to receive. At the fame time it affords me an additional pleajure in giving me an opportunity of acknowledging publicly my obligations to Your GRACE for favours great in themfelves, but made much greater by your handSome manner of conferring them, unfolicited, unafked, unexpected. I will not fay undeferved, because that would be calling your GRACE'S (R(PPE) 5722 674 V.2 JUL 311916 373711 |