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Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. All other
spelling and punctuation remains unchanged with the exception of the
following substitutions:
lest for least
lest you make Mr. Emetic, the apothecary, your formidable enemy
lest that part of your patients, who condescend to visit you
emerged for immerged
you recently emerged from the obscurity
Surrey for Surry
In an excursion to Surrey,
duchess for dutchess
from the bedchamber of a duchess dowager
Italics are represented thus _italic_.