JANET CLINKER’S ORATION.
[Janet Clinker’s Oration is commonly found printed along with The History of Haverel Wives, and in the chap-book from which the text in the following pages are taken, this is the case. The full title in this case is:—‘An Oration on the Virtues of the Old Women, and the Pride of the Young: with a Direction for Young Men, what sort of Women to take, and for Women what sort of Men to Marry. Dictated by Janet Clinker, and written by Humphrey Clinker, the Clashing Wives’ Clerk. Glasgow: Printed by J. & M. Robertson, Saltmarket, 1807.’ It has been collated with the editions mentioned in the Introduction to these volumes: together with the reprint published in 1820 by Webster & Son, Edinburgh, referred to in the prefatory note to the History of the Haverel Wives.]