TO THE RIGHT HON.
CHARLES EARL OF HARDWICKE,

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My Lorp,

It is customary in a Dedication to use
the language of fulsome adulation, even in cases
where the writer and the person addressed affect
an equal abhorrence of it. Adopting a more sim-
ple, straightforward course, and one more worthy
of my name, for few foxes have run more straight,
Twill candidly inform your Lordship, that the love
I bear you is much the Same as that borne to my-
self by the most venerable hen now cackling in
your farm-yard, whose half-fledged brood I have

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