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Incensed to find your precious olio Buried in unexplored port-folio, You scorn the prudent lock and key, And pant well bound and gilt to see Your Volume in the window set Of Stockdale, Hookham, or Debrett.  \nGo then, and pass that dangerous bourn Whence never Book can back return:  \nAnd when you find, condemned, despised, Neglected, blamed, and criticised, Abuse from All who read you fall,(If haply you be read at all  \nSorely will you your folly sigh at, And wish for me, and home, and quiet.  \nAssuming now a conjuror's office, I Thus on your future Fortune prophesy:—Soon as your novelty is o'er,  \nAnd you are young and new no more, In some dark dirty corner thrown, Mouldy with damps, with cobwebs strown, Your leaves shall be the Book-worm's prey; Or sent to Chandler-Shop away, And doomed to suffer public scandal, Shall line the trunk, or wrap the candle!  \nBut should you meet with approbation,  \nAnd some one find an inclination To ask, by natural transition Respecting me and my condition; That I am one, the enquirer teach, Nor very poor, nor very rich; Of passions strong, of hasty nature, Of graceless form and dwarfish stature;  \nBy few approved, and few approving;  \nExtreme in hating and in loving;  \nAbhorring all whom I dislike, Adoring who my fancy strike; In forming judgements never long, And for the most part judging wrong; In friendship firm, but still believing Others are treacherous and deceiving, And thinking in the present aera That Friendship is a pure chimaera:  \nMore passionate no creature living, Proud, obstinate, and unforgiving, But yet for those who kindness show, Ready through fire and smoke to go.  \nAgain, should it be asked your page,'Pray, what may be the author's age?'Your faults, no doubt, will make it clear, I scarce have seen my twentieth year, Which passed, kind Reader, on my word,  \nWhile England's Throne held George the Third.  \nNow then your venturous course pursue:  \nGo, my delight! Dear Book, adieu!  \nHague,  \nOct. 28, 1794. M. G. L.  \nADVERTISEMENT  \nThe first idea of this Romance was suggested by the story of the Santon Barsisa, related in The Guardian.—The Bleeding Nun is a tradition still credited in many parts of Germany; and I have been told that the ruins of the Castle of Lauenstein, which She is supposed to haunt, may yet be seen upon the borders of Thuringia.—The WaterKing, from the third to the twelfth stanza, is the fragment of an original Danish Ballad—And Belerma and Durandarte is translated from some stanzas to be found ina collection of old Spanish poetry, which contains also the popular song of Gayferos and Melesindra, mentioned in Don Quixote.—I have now made a full avowal of all the plagiarisms of which I am aware myself; but I doubt not, many more may be found, of which I am at present totally unconscious.  \nCONTENTS  \nVOLUME I  \nCHAPTER I  CHAPTER II  CHAPTER III  \nVOLUME II  \nCHAPTER I  CHAPTER II  CHAPTER III  CHAPTER IV  \nVOLUME III  \nCHAPTER I  CHAPTER II  CHAPTER III  CHAPTER IV  CHAPTER V  \nVOLUME I  \nCHAPTER I  \n——Lord Angelo is precise;  \nStands at a guard with envy; Scarce confesses  \nThat his blood flows, or that his appetite  \nIs more to bread than stone.  \nMeasure for Measure.  \nScarcely had the Abbey Bell tolled for five minutes, and already was the Church of the Capuchins thronged with Auditors. Do not encourage the idea that the Crowd was assembled either from motives of piety or thirst of information. But very few were influenced by those reasons; and in a city where superstition reigns with such despotic sway as in Madrid, to seek for true devotion would b","cbCainqsU1Hc63Tn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainqsU1Hc63Tn","pdf",1477904,302,"English","# Preface\n# Advertisement\n# Contents\n## Volume I\n### Chapter I\n### Chapter II\n### Chapter III\n## Volume II\n### Chapter I\n### Chapter II\n### Chapter III\n### Chapter IV\n## Volume III\n### Chapter I\n### Chapter II\n### Chapter III\n### Chapter IV\n### Chapter V\n# Chapter I (excerpt)","[{\"question\":\"What does the preface do for the reader in this novel?\",\"answer\":\"It adopts a satirical, Horatian style to address readers about judgments of books, including the author’s imagined future fate of neglect or condemnation.\"}]","The Monk - A Romance | PDF",1791262319,465]