My precious Saviour's matchless name ; He's wise and holy, just and true, And altogether lovely too.

First, then, we warn thee not too hastily to condemn any of the incidents in this our history as impertinent and foreign to our main design, because thou dost not immediately conceive in what manner such incident may conduce to that design.

Be thou familiar; but by no meanes vulgar:[…]

a gem of wit