ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. 



THE credit of this treatise is so fully es- 

 tablished by the approbation the former 

 editions have met with, that it would be 

 quite superfluous to say any thing more in 

 its favour. In the present edition, which 

 has been revised with the greatest atten- 

 tion, I have been careful to avoid all new- 

 fangled rules, but have endeavoured to 

 render those which I have before laid down 

 more conspicuous and intelligent. Most 

 of the late publications on this pleasing 

 and rational recreation may allure by their 

 novelty for a while, but are in general so 

 vague and full of error, that, like summer 

 insects, pereunt et imputantur, they must 

 perish and be thought on no more. Hoping 







