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Sir Hans Shane Bar' 



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SIR, 



THE Serpent \_SubjeB of the follow- 

 ing Sheets,] being one part of your 

 celebrated and expenfive Colle6tion 

 of Rarities, naturally leads me to beg the 

 Honour of your Name to grace its Entrance 

 into the publick World. 



I C A N 't enter into the vanity of thinking, 

 that the Book can be any improvement to 

 one who has been fo long and laborious an 

 Enquirer after Truth, and penetrated fo far 



A a into 



