ABSTRACT
There is no Occasion (except Custom) for a Preface. Whoever reads the following Lines, and has a Taste of Poetry will find the lively Genius of the Witty and Excellent Author. Neither need I make an Apology for the Book; and would not in a Prolix Preface keep the Reader from better entertaining himself in the following Sheets. ’Tis enough that they are the Earl of Rochester’s, and that I have prevented their lying longer in Obscurity.
