HENRY; IN FOUR VOLUMES. 1 BY THE AUTHOR OF ARUNDEL. VOL. I. Ficta voluptatis causâ fint proxima veris, LONDON: PRINTED FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER. IT is a custom with fome authors to introduce their works by prefatory appeal to the candour of the Reader and rcumstances may undoubtedly combine to justify the meafure; but when a man acts from his own free motives in reforting to the prefs, how can he be warranted for intruding on the Public without a proper confidence in his powers for entertaining them? True refpect to the Reader refers itself to his judgment, and makes no attempts upon his pity. The purchaser of these volumes would have just reason to complain of his bargain, if he were to find nothing in them but a fample of my modefty in the Preface, and a long dull ftory at the end of it; and I fhould only prove that I thought more meanly of his tafte than of my own talents, were I to prefume that he could be well pleafed A 2 |