The Preface.

of the Bees, and is very angry with the Author: he bestows four strong Epithets on the enormity of his guilt, and by several elegant Innuendos to the Multitude—such as the danger there is in allowing such authors to live and the Vengeance of Heaven upon a whole nation—very charitably recommends him to their care.

Considering the length of this Epistle, and that it is not aimed solely at me, I thought at first to make some Extracts from it regarding what related to myself; but finding, on a closer inquiry, that what concerned me was so blended and interwoven with what did not, I was obliged to trouble the reader with it in its entirety; not without hopes that, wordy as it is, its extravagance will be entertaining to those who have read the Treatise it condemns with so much horror.

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