The pamphlet here presented
Was planned and printed by
A printer unindented,
A bard whom all decry.
The author and the printer,
With various kinds of skill,
Concocted it in Winter
At Davos on the Hill.
They burned the nightly taper;
But now the work is ripe—
Observe the costly paper,
Remark the perfect type!
MORAL EMBLEMS
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[Picture: Woodcut of person coming to house with children to welcome]
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See how the children in the print
Bound on the book to see what’s in ’t!
O, like these pretty babes, may you
Seize and _apply_ this volume too!
And while your eye upon the cuts
With harmless ardour opes and shuts,
Reader, may your immortal mind
To their sage lessons not be blind.
[Picture: Woodcut of person leaving seated person]