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free jocofe converfation at an entertainment ; anci an<br />
edition of it was procured at Leyden by that great<br />
perfon to whom it is infcribed. However, it pleafed<br />
many excellent perfons all over Europe, and has been<br />
quoted by fome in public prints. But there being at<br />
firft only a few copies printed, to be given to friends,.<br />
it began to be defired by the learned, and impatiently<br />
enquired after by the curious—the fubjeEt being, I"<br />
don't know how, very entertaining and alluring. I have<br />
often been forry that I could not oblige my friends,<br />
at their requeft, with the favour of a book ; however,<br />
I was unwilling to put it to the prefs again, partly<br />
becaufe I do not approve of everything in it, and_<br />
partly becaufe I am unwilling, on my firft entrance on<br />
the ftage of Fame, to incur the cenfure of fuch to,<br />
whom thefe papers, tinaured with a tickling falt,<br />
might feem too ludicrous and libertine. However, in<br />
the meantime, it happened that it was reprinted a few<br />
years fince, either at Leyden, or fomewhere elfe, tho'''<br />
I know not who was the editor, which I was not dis-<br />
pleafed with ; but had I been pre-informed of it, that<br />
edition had come out much more correa. But now I<br />
am very much fatisfied, and give myfelf joy that it<br />
has pleafed you to fuch a degree (whom Europe<br />
reckons.
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