ABSTRACT
MADAM, It will be in vain to deny that I have some Regard for this Piece,
since I Dedicate it to You. Yet You may bear me Witness, it was intended only to divert a few young Ladies, who have good Sense and good Humour enough, to laugh not only at their Sex’s little unguarded Follies, 5 but at their own. But as it was communicated with the Air of a Secret, it soon found its Way into the World.
