TO THE

D U K E

MARLBOROUGH

MARLBOROUGH.

MY LORD,

S it is natural to have a Fondness

for what has cost us much Time and Attenti

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on to produce, I hope Your Grace will forgive an Endeavour to preserve this Work from Oblivion, by affixing it to Your memorable Name.

I shall not here presume to mention the illustrious Palsages of your Life, which are celebrated by the whole Age, and have been the Subject of the moft fublime Pens; but if I could convey You to Posterity in your private Character, and describe the Stature, the Be

haviour

haviour and Aspect of the Duke of Marlborough, I question not but it would fill the Reader with more agreeable Images, and give him a more delightful Entertainment than what can be found in the following, or any other Book.

ONE cannot indeed without Offence, to Your self, observe, that You excel the rest of Mankind in the least, as well as the greatest Endowments. Nor were it

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