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<A FIELDING>
<T DAVID SIMPLE>
<E SECOND 1744>
<B 0>
<C 01>
<P 3> ((ROMAN NUMBERING))
((THE
PREFACE.))
<L 3>
AS SO MANY WORTHY PERSONS HAVE, I
AM TOLD, ASCRIBED THE HONOUR OF
THIS PERFORMANCE TO ME, THEY WILL
NOT BE SURPRIZED AT SEEING MY NAME TO THIS
PREFACE: NOR AM I VERY INSINCERE, WHEN I
CALL IT AN HONOUR; FOR IF THE AUTHORS OF
THE AGE ARE AMONGST THE NUMBER OF THOSE
WHO HAVE CONFERRED IT ON ME, I KNOW VERY
FEW OF THEM TO WHOM I SHALL RETURN THE COM-+
PLIMENT / OF SUCH A SUSPICION.
I COULD INDEED HAVE BEEN VERY WELL CON-+
TENT / WITH THE REPUTATION, WELL KNOWING
THAT SOME WRITINGS MAY BE JUSTLY LAID TO MY
CHARGE, OF A MERIT GREATLY INFERIOR TO THAT
OF THE FOLLOWING WORK; HAD NOT THE IMPU-+
TATION / DIRECTLY ACCUSED ME OF FALSHOOD, IN
BREAKING A PROMISE, WHICH I HAVE SOLEMNLY
MADE IN PRINT, OF NEVER PUBLISHING, EVEN
A PAMPHLET, WITHOUT SETTING MY NAME
TO IT: A PROMISE I HAVE ALWAYS HITHERTO
FAITHFULLY KEPT; AND, FOR THE SAKE OF
MEN'S CHARACTERS, I WISH ALL OTHER WRITERS
WERE BY LAW O . . .
