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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE COUNTESS
OF PEMBROKE,
&c. &c.
E beg Leave, MADAM, toprefent to Tour Ladyfhip*
the Metamorphoses of Ovid, in an Englifli
Drefs ; the Jame in "which 7hey appeared fome Tears
Jince; but with additional Ornaments, which we hope
are becoming, and will render Ihem not lefs agreeable.
When They firft came abroad in Tour Country, They had the
Honour of a Royal Patronage; and it is not proper, now 7hey come from a
foreign One, that They fhould feek for Protetlion any where but in their
own j or apply for This to one of mean Quality.
And to whom indeed, next to the Queen her fclf, fhould They make
their Addrefs, but to One whom She in a particular Manner delights to
honour ? Her Majefty, as She is, in all Knowledge which becomes her
THE COUNTESS
OF PEMBROKE,
&c. &c.
E beg Leave, MADAM, toprefent to Tour Ladyfhip*
the Metamorphoses of Ovid, in an Englifli
Drefs ; the Jame in "which 7hey appeared fome Tears
Jince; but with additional Ornaments, which we hope
are becoming, and will render Ihem not lefs agreeable.
When They firft came abroad in Tour Country, They had the
Honour of a Royal Patronage; and it is not proper, now 7hey come from a
foreign One, that They fhould feek for Protetlion any where but in their
own j or apply for This to one of mean Quality.
And to whom indeed, next to the Queen her fclf, fhould They make
their Addrefs, but to One whom She in a particular Manner delights to
honour ? Her Majefty, as She is, in all Knowledge which becomes her