HARVARD COLLEGE June 9, 1941 LIBRARY mis Theodore W. Perchards mu "I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene. BURTON. ΤΟ SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. THIS WORK IS DEDICATED IN TESTIMONY OF THE ADMIRATION AND AFFECTION OF THE AUTHOR. |