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to the
Right Honourable

JAMES,

Viscount Limerick.

 

My Lord,

s Your Lordship does not esteem it any Accomplishment to forget whatever You learnt at the University, I hope it is no Presumption to inscribe to You the following Poem, translated from the Greek; Your Lordship will be a Judge, how much Latitude it is done with, as well as how far that Liberty is pardonable.

HOMER is by a few bold Men said to have many Faults: But most of the Criticks insist upon it, that where-ever any thing like an Error appears in that great Author, the Blame is to be charg'd wholly upon the Reader;