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If this comes forth too late to take effect,
My Conscience knows, it was not my neglect:
For I, my utmost labour, had bestown,
To make it, in a timely-season known.
If, therefore, ought amisse thereby ensue,
There lay the Fault, to whom the Blame is due.

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Here being vacant Pages, the Author hath filled them with a Copie of certain Verses, wherewith he lately inclosed two Petitions to the Parlament, and laid them within their Threshold; hoping by that Expedient, they might have been presented to the House; The Paper was thus Superscribed;