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[Inscription: I will add a few words respecting my kings and
Queens.
They were hastily written from the impulse of the moment, for my
own entertainment, and that of my youngest grand-daughter, without
the remotest idea of printing them. This is my apology for the
careless, familiar style in which they were composed. At the
request of my children I concluded to print them, when it would
have been highly proper to have furnished my royal personages with
a dress more befitting the occasion. But the state of my eyes
rendered it very inconvenient, if not hazardous to attempt it.
And as they are only intended to visit a few of my friends, I
trust to their good nature to excuse the homely garb in which they
are presented.]
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