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 be injured but by Indicretion; and that it is this alone which often betrays them into the Snares that Deceit and Villainy pread for them. A Moral which I have the more indutriouly laboured, as the teaching of it is, of all others, the likeliet to be attended with Succes; ince, I believe, it is much eaier to make good Men wie, than to make bad Men good.

For thee Purpoes I have employed all the Wit and Humour of which I am Mater in the following Hitory; wherein I have endeavoured to laugh Mankind out of their favourite Follies and Vices. How far I have ucceeded in this good Attempt, I hall ubmit to the candid Reader, with only two Re-