Epigraph
“Count that day lost whose low descending sun — Views from thy hand no worthy action done.”
Dedication
TO THE IMMUTABLE AND INFALLIBLE GODDESS, GOOD TASTE,
IN GRATITUDE FOR HER CONDEMNATION OF ALL SUPERIOR AUTHORS,
AND IN THE HOPE OF PROPITIATING HER CREATORS AND EXPOUNDERS,
This Volume is reverentially
Dedicated BY HER DEVOUT WORSHIPPER,
THE AUTHOR.