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OR to whom can 1 dedicate this poem, fo much justice as to you? "Tis the sentation of your own hero: 'tis the picture drawn at length, which you admire and prize fo much in little. None of your ornaments are wanting; neither the landscape of your Tower, nor the rifing fun; nor the Anno Domini of your new fovereign's coronation. This must needs be a grateful undertaking to your whole party: especially to those who have not been so happy as to purchase the original. I hear the graver has made a good market of it: all his kings are bought up already; or the value of the remainder fo inhanced, that many a poor Polander who would be glad to worship the image, is not able to the cost of him: but must be content to

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fee him here. I must confefs I am no great artist; but fign-poft painting will serve the turn to remember a friend by; efpecially when better is not to be had. Yet for your comfort the lineaments are true: and though he fat not five times to me, as he did to B. yet I have confulted hiftory; as the Italian painters do, when they would draw a Nero or a Caligula; though they have not feen the man, they can help their imagination by a statue of him, and find out the coloring from Suetonius and Tacitus. Truth is, you might have spared one fide of your Medal: the head would be seen to more advantage if it were placed on a spike of the Tower, a little nearer to the fun which would then break out to better purpose. You tell us in your preface to the No-protestant Plot, that you thall be forced hereafter to leave off your modefty: I suppose you mean that little which is left you; for it was worn to rags when you put out this Medal. Never was there practised such a piece of notorious impudence in the face of an established government. I believe when he is dead you will wear him in thumbrings, as the Turks did Scanderbeg; as if there

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