John Todd and How He Stirred His Own Broth-Pot
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Excerpt from John Todd and How He Stirred His Own Broth-Pot: A Tale Worth Telling
An Apology.
Some critics say that in no case
A book should be without preface,
As always something, less or more,
Which bears the name should go before.
Not even a pamphlet or libellus
Should be without one, as they tell us.
But if an author hath not got
Wherewith to make one, then why not?
Why should he, if so pinched or placed,
Not let his book go unprefaced?
When thus nonplussed, to take the pains
Of cudgelling his barren brains,
In hope of beating out what may
Pass for a preface in its way,
But which would not the public make
The wiser, were a grand mistake.
And lest I should fall into it,
All prefacing I must omit,
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