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The Author to the Reader.

I look on this life as the progress original: "Progreſſe"; here meaning a royal journey or official tour of a royal essence: the soul only leaves her court to see the country. Heaven contains within it a scene of earth; and had the soul been contented with ideas alone, she would not have traveled beyond the map. But excellent patterns invite their imitations original: "Mimes". Nature, which was so beautiful in its original type, could not remain a mere flat image in the relief carving original: "Anaglyph"; a term for a chased or embossed ornament.

This causes her to ramble here to examine the medal by the mold original: "Flaſk"; in casting, a flask is the frame that holds the mold; but while she examines their symmetry, she forms it. Thus, her descent reveals her origin: God, in love with his own beauty, frames a glass meaning a mirror to view it by reflection; but the frailty of the matter