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Author's note: Some three or four unfriendly Criticks having communicated with the Author in a sneering style - inquiring - "what good his Work could possibly achieve" - he was fain to reply in the following:
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Epigraph: "It is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgement." Saint Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians: Chapter IV; Verse 3.
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Epigraph: "Be not ye the servants of men." Saint Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians: Chapter VII; Verse 23.
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Epigraph: "For, this was all thy care, / To stand approved in sight of God; -" Paradise Lost: Book VI.
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The poem is preceded by Jeffery's statement 'Come, now! And I will write mine Epitaph-' and the Epitaph he has composed (107).
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