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To the Right Honourable Mr. PITT SIR,
Never poor Wight of a Dedicator had less hopes from his Dedication than I have from this of mine; for it is written in a bye corner of the kingdom, and in a retired thatched house, where I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles,----- but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of Life.
I humbly beg, Sir, that you will honour this book by taking it----(not under your Protection,-----it must protect itself, but)-----into the country with you; where, if I am ever told it has made you smile, or can conceive it has beguiled you of one moment's pain------I shall think myself as happy as a minister of state;--------perhaps much happier than any one (one only excepted) that I have ever read or heard of.
I am, great Sir
(and what is more to your Honour),
I am, good Sir,
Your Well-wisher,
and most humble F . . .
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