LONDON: Printed for W. MEARS, at the Lamb on Ludgate- PREFACE TO THE READER. I Na Book that has not a Dedication prefix'd, there is a fort of Neceffity of a Preface; because it looks odd to skip from a Title-Page, to an Introduction. However, I did not alone confult that Part of Decency in my Reasons for this Preface, but penned it, with regard that I thought fomething ought to be faid on the Work in general. A 3 The The kind Entertainment the Town gave to the Lady's Library, the Succefs it met with, and the great Call there was for it, even from the moft diftant Counties, ,though it was fwell'd out into three Volumes, and fold at a pretty handfome Price, made me think that a GENTEMAN'S LIBRARY might be a Copy of no great Hazard to a Bookfeller, and make an Edition of particular Ufe and Service to Young Gentlemen coming into the World Whatever Advantages we have from Education, from Example, or Precept, on our firft Enterance on the Stage of Life, we meet with Ac cidents and Temptations to withdraw us from Morality, and ftand in need of fupplemental Inftruction, and a new Director, to confirm us |