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Excerpt from Contes Des Fous, and Other Trifles in Verse: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory
That his Muse may however now and then, in her aukward merriment, have been a little too free-spoken, I shall not take upon me to deny but would with undaunted countenance venture 'to demand for her the same liberal indulgence, which the Muses of almost all our most approved Poets have thought it not unreasonable to claim, were I' not apprehensive, that I might thereby appear to imagine, that his homelv - humble help-matonas entitled to boast of some distant degree ofaflinity to these charming, and illustrious ladies. Imust therefore content myself with alledging, that asl have already candidly confessed my worthy friend's bodily frame to have been rather broadly built, I do not see how any reader can in his conscience complain, ifthat part of his mental fabrick, which byroz/rlesy I may beallowed'to call his wit, shall turn out to have been constructed upon a somewhat similar scale ofinches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
