Having thus adjusted all necessary Preliminaries with my Reader, I shall not trouble him with any more prefatory Discourses, but proceed in my old Method, and entertain him with Speculations on every useful Subject that falls in my Way.


Footnote 1:

Addison's papers are marked on the authority of Tickell.

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[No. 557]From Friday, June 18, to Monday, June 21, 1714Addison

Quippe domum timet ambiguam, Tyriosque bilingues.
Virg.