Dedicated by permission
to Miss Austen
Madam,
You are a Phoenix. You taste is refined, you Sentiments noble, & your Virtues innumerable. Your Person is lovely, your Figure, elegant, & your Form, majestic. Your manners are polished, your Conversation is rational & your appearance singular. If therefore the following Tale will afford one moment's amusement to you, every wish will be gratified of
your most obedient
humble Servant
The Author