Item 4 (Verse, Commendatory writing), fol. 1v [p. 2]

In Frontispiciem

The Ship is larger made, as Fools increase

...

The world, into one Fold, we Christian call.

[5 numbered stanzas, followed by Newberry Library stamp. Leaf (i.e. verso of title page) much repaired.]

Item 5 (Prose, Letter, Commendatory writing), fols. 2r-v [pp. 3-4]

Ad Lectorem

It was a good design of the ancient satirists, whether Orators or Poets, to ridicule vice, and recommend virtue to the world

...

if any Reader by seeing the folly of others in this Book, shall beware of vice, and grow more in Love with virtue, or by seeing his own faults under any of the following descriptions, shall reform, the Improver has his end

[Shortened paraphrase of Locher's Prologue; traces the history of moral thinkers and writers through Socrates, Plato, the classical tragedians, comedians, epicists and elegists, Lucilius, Horace, Persius and Juvenal. Followed (p. 4) by coloured drawing of Neptune and three horses.]

Item 6 (Verse, Commendatory writing), fol. 3r [p. 5]

In Opus modo reformatum

Navibus ipse vagis, ventos, aurasque faventes

...

Sive procella vorax obruat: inde vale

[5 numbered stanzas]

Item 7 (Verse, Commendatory writing), fol. 3v [p. 6]

Alius in hoc speculum stultorum

Ex toto salubris mundo, doctrina fugatur

...

Haec multis, prosit Fictio nostra, viris

[5 numbered stanzas]

Item 25 (Verse, Commendatory writing), fol.23v

Of Her Majesty on New Year's Day 1683 by Waller

What revolutions in the world have been

...

Tis greater glory to reform the age

[This poem is in G. Thorn Drury's The Poems of Edmund Waller with no material differences]

Item 26 (Verse, Commendatory writing), fols.24r-25r

A Presage of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire, presented to his Majesty on his Birthday

Since James the second graced the British throne

...

Known to the East, and Celebrated there

[This poem is in G. Thorn Drury's The Poems of Edmund Waller with no material differences]

[The poem is followed by Waller's quotation from Virgil "Haec ego longaevus cecini tibi, maxime regum! Ausus et ipse manu juvenum tentare laborem. - Virg."]