THE Gentleman's Library, CONTAINING RULES FOR CONDUCT IN ALL PARTS of LIFE. The SECOND EDITION, Corrected Written by a GENTLEMA N. Purpureus, latè qui splendeat, unus, & alter LONDON: Hor. Printed for D. BROWNE, at the Black PREFACE TO THE READER. Na Book that has not cause it looks odd to skip from A 3 The The kind Entertainment the Town gave to the Lady's Library, the Succefs it met with, and the great Call there was for it, even from the moft diftant Counties, tho' it was fwell'd out into Three Volumes, and fold at a pretty handfome Price, made me think that a Gentleman's Library might be a Copy of no great Hazard to a Bookfeller, and make an Edition of particular Ufe and Service to Young Gentlemen coming into the World. Whatever Advantages we have from Education, from Example, or Precept, on our first Entrance on the Stage of Life, we meet with Accidents and Temptations to withdraw us from Morality, and stand in need of fupplemental Inftruction, and a new Director to confirm us in our Conduct. Views of Pleafure, and Inftability of Humour, lead us into a thousand Inconveniencies, against which we are neither ar med by Prudence, Reason, or Continence or don As to the Precepts contain'd in this Treatife, I have put them together, according to my Power, in a manner that may make them Useful and Entertaining To this End, as often as my Memory ferv'd, I have interspers'd them with Quotations in Poetry, Examples from Hiftory, and Axioms that were in Credit with the Sages of Antiquity. The gay Part of the World are fo ftartled at Morality, when merely fuch, when they think it is all dry and crabbed,and the whole Volume penn'd for Inftruction, without anyregard to their Pleasure,that |