For works with similar titles, see Poems on Several Occasions.
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To the Reverend

Dr. Delaune,

PRESIDENT

OF

St. John's College in Oxford.

Sir,

I Shall not, in this Address to you, act inconsistently with my professed mean opinion of our modern Dedicators and Dedications, since I design to avoid in my self whatever gives me offence in them, I expect no Guineas, and

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