Excerpt from The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura, Vol. 1 of 2: Reprinted From the Scarce Edition of 1709, Revised and Corrected

Though I have not the happiness of challenging the honor of the first, yet your just claim to both the last, which are of far greater import, abundantly justify my address.

Though the following treatise be in prose for the most part, yet it being a poetical production in the original and both its copies, it has a sort of right to fly to the protection of a person, who has given the world sufficient proofs of his skill in that art.

Let it not be thought a blemish in you, Sir, to excel in that science, to arrive at which so many great men have discovered an impotent ambition.

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