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JUVENAL

LONDON, PRINTED FOR J. MURRAY, (No. 32)

FLEET-STREET.

M DCC LXXVII.

270. g.

418.

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WILLIAM MASON, A.M.

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F I had not had little employment at the time I took The English Garden Book the Second in my hand, I fhould have remained ignorant of what I am about to notice. And it is pity perhaps, that the accident of my meeting with it fhould be the means of interrupting your complete triumph over a Bookfeller, which, fince the publication of your pamphlet, you have no doubt enjoyed. B THE

THE following advertisement against certain bookfellers, with which you introduce your Poem, I believe you meant particularly to apply to me. And I think fo for this reason, because you have been bold enough to file a bill in the Court of Chancery against me, and against no other perfon of the profeffion, for the charge

it contains,

ADVERTISEMENT..

"THE author printed a certain "number of copies of this fecond "book last year, to give to his "friends, intending at that time "to defer the publication till he had