Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Prologue

Prologues, like compliments, are loss of time;
’Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
—David Garrick

Prologues are like a forlorn hope, sent out
Before the play, to skirmish and to scout.
—Pierre A. Motteux