Category: PREFATORY MATERIAL

Worthy Readers,[note]The title and salutation to this letter appear only in the 1664 and 1668 editions, not in the 1653 edition.[/note] I wonder any should laugh or think it ridiculous to hear of fairies, and yet verily believe there are spirits, which spirits can have no description, because no dimension—and so of[note]so of] of 1653[/note]…

[note]This prefatory note only appears in the 1653 edition, not in those from 1664 or 1668.[/note] It is to be observed that there is a secret working by Nature, as to cast an influence upon the minds of men: like as in contagions, when as the air is corrupted it produces several diseases, so several…