BOOK 1.

I. ENTER DAME GOSSIP AS CHORUS

II. MISTRESS GOSSIP TELLS OF THE ELOPEMENT OF THE COUNTESS OF

CRESSETT WITH THE OLD BUCCANEER, AND OF CHARLES DUMP THE

POSTILLION CONDUCTING THEM, AND OF A GREAT COUNTY FAMILY

III. CONTINUATION OF THE INTRODUCTORY MEANDERINGS OF DAME GOSSIP,

TOGETHER WITH HER SUDDEN EXTINCTION

IV. MORNING AND FAREWELL TO AN OLD HOME

V. A MOUNTAIN WALK IN MIST AND SUNSHINE

VI. THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER

VII. THE LADY’S LETTER

VIII. OF THE ENCOUNTER OF TWO STRANGE YOUNG MEN AND THEIR CONSORTING:

IN WHICH THE MALE READER IS REQUESTED TO BEAR IN MIND WHAT WILD

CREATURE HE WAS IN HIS YOUTH, WHILE THE FEMALE SHOULD MARVEL

CREDULOUSLY

IX. CONCERNING THE BLACK GODDESS FORTUNE AND THE WORSHIP OF HER,

TOGETHER WITH AN INTRODUCTION OF SOME OF HER VOTARIES