But throughout life Dorset continued to countenance Nahum, serving as standing dedicatee of his works, and the prompter of several of them.

[i.e., the Dedicatee, the Lord BUCKHURST, p. 503] was the substance of what was then spoke, on that occasion: and LISIDEIUS, I think, was going to reply; when he was prevented thus by CRITES.

And now I will take my leave with saying I esteem thy verses, like thy present, honour thy frontispicer, and right-reverence thy Patron and Dedicatee, and am,

Not many other volumes, I believe, have been burlesqued and cried down in the public prints by their own dedicatees....