The Epiftle Dedicatory. tableneS, and know you well, they know how to make the Application without any further diretlion from me. Si, John, I 04 crave leave to fay, that it It( and will beyour honour and comfort, both in life and death, and in the day of your account, that in all the great Places, offices and Employments unto which divine Providence has celled you for divers years together, you have laid out your time, your firength, your e flate for the publick good when o: hers have been prying them (elves upon the pub- lick, you have been a ferving of the publick. Sir, Ws yeso great mercy and happinefs, that you Can fiend forth andfay, as once Samuel did, Behold, here I am, wit- nefs againft me,,whofe Ox have I taken:' or whofe Ms have I taken,: or whom have I defrauded whom Ihave I oppreffed f or of whole hand have I re- ceived any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith : jour prudence and moderation before your Mayoralty, aid in it (when you had many a narrow bridge toga over) and after it, to this day wik never be forgotten by all fiber Citizens. Sir, the French Hiftory tells us, that when an old Courtier would needs depart from the Court, and retire himfelf to a private life, the King defired him to leave his advice in fome generalRules, about the go- vernment of his Kingdom: Upon this motion of the King, the old Courtier took a Peet of white paper, and writ upon the top of the leaf Moderation, a,nd in the middle of the leaf Moderation, and at the bottom of she leaf Moderation, intimating to the King, that the only way to keep his Kingdom in Peace and Profperity, ma to manage his Government throughout with a fpirit of Moderation. When Vefpafian'askd Apollonius Neromild tune the Harp well, but in Government he what wies the cafe of Nero's min; he anftvered,7'hat did:,,
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