This Treatise, which is grown up under your lordship’s eye, and has ventured into the world by your order, does now, by a natural kind of right, come to your lordship for that protection which you several years since promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great so ever, set at the beginning of a book, will be
able to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the reader’s fancy.