yt THE OYSTEK. 



et docte Epistre a Madame EU%aleth, Royne d* Angleterre ;''^ 

 and to gild the nasty thing, called it, in English, '' A 

 Perle for a Prince ;" but all the ingenuity of quackery 

 could not disg[uise the drastic pill, and neither the queen 

 nor her lieges would swallow it. I have seen all three 

 books in the Grenville Library in the British Museum, 

 and at once pronounce them nothing but ''mock" pearls., 

 l^ow, I have extracted for your delectation a real pearl 

 out of the Oyster, in the shape of this little book. It ig 

 Christmas-tide. Cherish it for those best of pearls, 

 kindly thoughts and loving remembrances, which the 

 Oyster calls into being when the Holly and the Mistle- 

 toe deck our walls. 



LONDON : WILLIAM STEVENS, PEINTEE, BELL XAED, TEMPLE BAE. 



