ABSTRACT
CHAP. IV. e Author having found something in his rambles, which he supposes may
be of some value to the right owner, to shew his readiness to restore it, condescends to take upon himself the o ce of a Town-Cryer; – but waves the ceremony of the great O-Yes three times repeated. 328
CHAP. V. Turns chie y upon the subject of Education, and contains some things
which the Author is apprehensive will not be very agreeable to the Female part of his readers, whether of the elderly or the more youthful class, yet may serve as a useful admonition to both. 335
CHAP. VI. e Author expects will make a full attonement to the ladies for the too
much plain dealing, as some of them may think, of the preceding chapter. 342
CHAP. VII. Contains the recital of an adventure, which, perhaps, will not be found the
less, but the more interesting, for its being not altogether of so singular a nature as some others in this work may have appear’d. 345
CHAP. VIII. Contains a brief account of the e ects that were produced by the good
intentions of the Invisible Spy, with some other subsequent particulars. 353
Since my setting about this work, I have seen several late treatises that are half taken up with introductory Prefaces to the publick:183 – on a serious examination to what end those long discourses were penn’d, they seem to me to have been occasioned either by one or the other of the following motives:
First, at an author having contracted with his bookseller for a certain number of sheets, without having well consider’d whether his head be stored with subject matter to make good his engagement, nds himself under a necessity of lling up the vacant pages by saying something by way of an introduction, preface, or advertisement to the reader.
