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Right Reverend Father in GOD,

WILLIAM

Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.

It is a common and vain pretence in Dedications, that the name of a great person is prefixed to ward off censure: and if it would do so in earnest, the author might secure himself upon easy terms; and those that write books need not complain so much of the tongues