List of Illustrations

[“Far long with horror she has viewedThe naked Truth for being nude”]FRONTISPIECE
FACING PAGE
[“Gentle Reader, who so patiently have waited”]10
[“Her wardrobe, though extremely small, sufficed a somewhat simple need”]14
[“At the Heart of her spouse she continued to storm”]20
[“Were she to mingle with her ink a little milk of human kindness”]28
[“And so be daily left her side to travel o’er the ocean far”]50
[“Where the spinsters at tea are collected, her arrival is bailed with delight”]58
[“He is yearning for the chance of reading Gibbon”]64
[“How glad the happy pair must be that Hymen’s bonds have set them free”]80
[“I wonder why they look such frights”]92
[“Small wonder she receives a shock each time she views thy billycock”]98
[“‘She is mine!’ he announces, adjourning to the distant horizon afar”]104

Publishers’ Preface

Gentle Reader, who so patiently have waited

For such viands as your poet can provide,

(Which, as critics have occasionally stated,

Must be trying to a delicate inside,)