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Postscript

I Would not be so ungrateful to the memory of the Dead, as not to acknowledge, that my fellow Student had some hand with me in the beginning of the Tragedy; but, dying six Moneths before the finishing of the Play, he did not live to see two Acts compleat: nor are there sixty lines of his remaining; which little concern has in the thoughts of some given him a Title to the whole. And 'tis the pleasure of others, to accuse me of stealing out of an Old obsolete Tragi-Comedy, called, Cambyses, King of Persia; a Play which I had never heard of till this had been Acted: but however, those that have seen that may find that I might have borrow'd better language from Sternbold and Hopkins.

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