_Lectures upon the Diffection of Human Nature_. _A Panegyrick upon the World_. _An Analytical Difcourfe upon Zeal_, Hiftori-theo-phyfi-logically _confidered_. A _general Hiftory of_ Ears. _A modeft Defence of the Proceedings of the_ Rabble _in all Ages_. _A Defcription of the Kingdom of_ Abfurdities. _A Voyage into_ England, _by a Perfon of Quality in_ Terra Auftralis incognita, _tranflated from the Original_. _A Critical Effay upon the Art of_ Canting, _Philofophically_, _Phyfically_, _and Mufically confidered_. [Picture: Facsimile of title page of the second (1704) edition] TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMERS. My LORD, THOUGH the author has written a large Dedication, yet that being addressed to a Prince whom I am never likely to have the honour of being known to; a person, besides, as far as I can observe, not at all regarded or thought on by any of our present writers; and I being wholly free from that slavery which booksellers usually lie under to the caprices of authors, I think it a wise piece of presumption to inscribe these papers to your Lordship, and to implore your Lordship’s protection of them. God and your Lordship know their faults and their merits; for as to my own particular, I am altogether a stranger to the matter; and though everybody else should be equally ignorant, I do not fear the sale of the book at all the worse upon that score. Your Lordship’s name on the front in capital letters will at any time get off one edition: neither would I desire any other help to grow an alderman than a patent for the sole privilege of dedicating to your Lordship.