SPECTATOR. VOLUME the FOURTH. CAREFULLY CORRECTE D. EDINBURGH: Printed by HAMILTON, BALFOUR, & NEILL, And fold at his Shop, at Milton's Head, Weft End of the MDCCLXI. D UK E O F MARLBOROUGH. MY LORD, Sit is natural to have a fondness for A$ what has coft us much time and attention to produce, I hope Your Grace will forgive an endeavour to preserve thiswork from oblivion, by affixing to it Your memorable name. I SHALL not here prefume to mention the illuftrious paffages of Your life, which are celebrated by the whole age, and have been the fubject of the moft fublime pens; but if I could convey You to pofterity im Your private character, and describe the ftature, the behaviour and aspect of the Duke of Marlborough, I quellion not butt it would fill the reader with more agreeable images, and give him a more delightful en |