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First line: ‘The free-born English, generous and Wise’. Subscribed ‘1679.’ The allusion is to Tacitus, Agricola, cap. 13 (‘Britanni delectum … serviant’).

Headed continues ‘Translated out of the 9th Book of Lucan. Beginning at, quid quæri Labiene Jubes etc.?’ First line: ‘What shou’d I ask my Friend? which best wou’d be.’