Kind Fate protect us.
From careless servants and removal fiends, and from all thoughtless women and children,
Kind Fate protect us.
From book-droppers and book wrenchers; from ink and pencil markers and scribblers; and from such as write their names on title-pages,
Kind Fate protect us.
From selling books by auction; from disposing of them by private sale and from all grave disasters,
Kind Fate protect us.
From truth economizing cataloguers; from two price booksellers; and from all disingenuous dealers,
Kind Fate protect us.
From “Bowdlerized” editions; from expurgators and all putters forth of incomplete editions,