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 1    Ded   |      which is grown up under your lordship’s eye, and has ventured
 2    Ded   |       kind of right, come to your lordship for that protection which
 3    Ded   |         procure me that than your lordship, who are allowed to have
 4    Ded   |       more retired recesses. Your lordship is known to have so far
 5    Ded   |        not the less genuine. Your lordship can give great and convincing
 6    Ded   |          some few, from whom your lordship has been pleased not wholly
 7    Ded   |       dedicate this Essay to your lordship; and its having some little
 8    Ded   |       system of the sciences your lordship has made so new, exact,
 9    Ded   |          it glory enough, if your lordship permit me to boast, that
10    Ded   |     different from yours. If your lordship think fit that, by your
11    Ded   |       time or other, to lead your lordship further; and you will allow
12    Ded   |       present I here make to your lordship; just such as the poor man
13    Ded   |          highest degree, for your lordship, that if they can add a
14    Ded   | confidence brag, I here make your lordship the richest present you
15    Ded   |           have received from your lordship; favours, though great and
16    Ded   |          me I am indebted to your lordship for. I wish they could as
17    Ded   |        engagements it has to your lordship. This I am sure, I should
18    Ded   |          much I am,~MY LORD,~Your Lordship’s most humble and most obedient