[Footnote 1: Fought April 25 (O.S. 14), 1707, between the English, under
Lord Galway, a Frenchman, with Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish allies,
and a superior force of French and Spaniards, under an Englishman, the
Duke of Berwick, natural son of James II. Deserted by many of the
foreign troops, the English were defeated.]
[Footnote 2: cleaning]
[Footnote 3: that]
[Footnote 4: that]
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No. 8. Friday, March 9, 1711. Addison.
'At _Venus_ obscuro gradientes ære sepsit,
Et multo Nebulae circum Dea fudit amictu,
Cernere ne quis eos ...'
Virg.
I shall here communicate to the World a couple of Letters, which I
believe will give the Reader as good an Entertainment as any that I am
able to furnish [him [1]] with, and therefore shall make no Apology for
them.
'To the SPECTATOR, &c.