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To the Worthy and Esteem'd
Mr. WILLIAM PATERSEN:
As Approv'd of Skill
In the Great or Political Harmony,
Like the Theban Artist,
Who Received his Lute from Mercury,
By the Musick of Eloquence, and Powerful
Perswasive, Charming the Insensible,
As Stones, into Regularity and UNITY;
This Concert of Divine Harmony;
As a Birth of Kin,
And under the same Constellation
With that more General Concent,
In which He has Perform'd so Exquisite a Part:
And as Acknowledgment of Favour
From HIM, and HIS;
With their Benign Influences on
Its Formation and Product;
Is Humbly
INSCRIB'D.
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