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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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