ABSTRACT
It hath been customary with Authors of extraordinary Merit, to prefix to their Works certain Commendatory Epistles in Verse and Prose, written by a Friend, or left with the Printer by an unknown Hand; which are of notable Use to an injudicious Reader, and often lead him to the Discovery of Beauties, which might otherwise have escaped his Eye. They stand like Champions at the Head of a Volume, and bid Defiance to an Army of Criticks.1
