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EBOOK DE LIBRIS: PROSE AND VERSE ***
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DE LIBRIS PROSE & VERSE
BY AUSTIN DOBSON
Vt Mel Os, sic Cor Melos afficit, & reficit. _Deuteromelia_.
A mixture of a _Song_ doth ever adde Pleasure. BACON (_adapted_).
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1908
_Copyright 1908 by The Macmillan Company_
_PROLOGUE_
_LECTOR BENEVOLE!_--FOR SO
THEY USED TO CALL YOU, YEARS AGO,--
I CAN'T PRETEND TO MAKE YOU READ
THE PAGES THAT TO THIS SUCCEED;
NOR COULD I--IF I WOULD--EXCUSE
THE WAYWARD PROMPTINGS OF THE MUSE
AT WHOSE COMMAND I WROTE THEM DOWN.
I HAVE NO HOPE TO "PLEASE THE TOWN."
I DID BUT THINK SOME FRIENDLY SOUL
(NOT ILL-ADVISED, UPON THE WHOLE!)
MIGHT LIKE THEM; AND "TO INTERPOSE
A LITTLE EASE," BETWEEN THE PROSE,
SLIPPED IN THE SCRAPS OF VERSE, THAT THUS
THINGS MIGHT BE LESS MONOTONOUS.
THEN, _LECTOR,_ BE _BENEVOLUS!_
[_The Author desires to express his thanks to Lord Northcliffe, Messrs.
Macmillan and Co., Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., Mr. William Heinemann,
and Messrs. Virtue and Co., for kind permission to reprint those pieces
in this volume concerning which no specific arrangements were made on
their first appearance in type.
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