PREFACE. THE following little Work being, it is apprehended, the first of the kind that has been presented to the publick, the Editor is encouraged to hope it will be received with complacency, and prove a source of some entertainment as well as instruction. vi PREFACE. To enter on a defence of works of this nature, or point out their advantages, is not his intention-he will merely glance at the conveniency of a volume, that may be perused at the smallest interval of leisure; cannot disgust from its continuity; may be laid aside, or resumed, at pleasure; and whose object is to give popula rity to morality, and diffusion to virtue. If his fair countrywomen, who, to the resistless magic of external charms, unite the refined accomplishment of 1 |