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404 NARRATIVE, &c. 



CHAP, And now farewell, my /nV/^fi^j", who have been pleafed 

 f_^^^' „, j perufe this narrative of my diftreffes with fympathetic 

 fenfibility; particularly thofe whofe goodnefs of heart can 

 forgive my inaccuracies and foibles. — I fay, farewell : 

 claiming no other merit whatever throughout thefe 

 pages, than that of having fpoke the fimple truth ; which, 

 if I wilfully have violated, may thefe volumes periih, 

 and be forgotten with their author ! — But fhould this 

 treafure, truth, fo rarely to be met with, be found in 

 this performance 



*^ Let one poor fprig of bays around my head 

 Bloom while I live j and point me out when dead.'* 



T HE EN 



