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THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
It will not, I hope, be thought unnecessary, if I lay
before the Reader my Reason for republishing this facetious
little Book, after a delitescency of near a hundred Years.
Being desired by a Gentle-woman to look over a Parcel of old
Books, amongst 'em I chanced upon Drunken Barnaby,
which reading gave me Satisfaction for my Trouble;
whereupon I took a Resolution to publish it, that others
might therewith be pleased as well as myself. What I can
gather of the Author is chiefly from himself; for he says,
Coming to a Place called Harrington he was well
pleased
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