Excerpt from Pursuits of Agriculture: A Satirical Poem, in Three Cantos, With Notes
My Reader is already aware that my Poem is not gravely didactic. But let him be assured, that I have strictly adhored to historical truth. Not a single topic is touched, which has not been either published with official signatures, in newspapers or otherwise, or been circulated by rumour in such general currency, and with such incidental and undesigned confirmations from authority, as to leave no doubt of general correctness, if peradventure, some slight shades of difference in unimportant particulars should exist. In short, the figures are faithfully copied, and the colouring only is my own.
Truth being thus effectually secured, why may I not be allowed to laugh? At the important objects professedly aimed at by the Society, I do not, for I can not, laugh.
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