Dear Friend,

Since my Golden Pills prov'd so acceptable a Present, and you are very importunate to be made acquainted with the State and Condition of our happy Island of Content, where such chearful Physick is alone administer'd in all Distempers; persuent to your Request, I have carefully improv'd some leisure Hours on purpose to oblige you, and have accordingly sent you an exact Account of the Situation of the Place, the Products of the Country, the Constitution of the Government; also the Customs and Manners of the merry Inhabitants of our musical Kingdom, that you may be the better sensible how far the Pleasures of Peace and Dulcitude of Harmony, exceed the noisy Surprizes of uncertain War, and the grinning Malice of domestick Discord. Therefore, that I may not weary out your Patience with a tedious Introduction, I shall treat you as a Friend, and, free of all Partiality to my native Country, let you into the Secret, without farther Preparation, viz.