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Scribles of this Nature are usually design'd only to insinuate the Author into the good Opinion of his Patron; but besides that, my Lord, I must confess another meaning, … I think it is my Duty ... to thank you for your late Loyalty, Diligence, and unwearied service of the King, against the Rebels; in which you faithfully shew'd the unvalued Vertue of your Temper, sparing no Cost, nor ommitting no Stratagem, that could advance to the eternal fixing our Great (tho' then scarce settl'd) Monarch in this Throne as once your Immortal, and I hope (never forgotten) Father, did the late glorious Prince before.