21. The 1673 book includes all the poems in Milton's 1645 Poems, though not the prefatory material. 22. The two-page spread of the miniature and the text makes a vivid introductory statement for the prefatory material. 23. Du Souhait also contributed laudatory poems to the prefatory material of works by Timoth�e de Chillac and Pierre de Deimier. 24. Her prefatory letter to the duchess of Urbino signaled a step up in her career from secular to sacred literature. 25. However, under the standard model, the opening phrase was believed to be prefatory or amplifying to the operative clause. 26. The canon tables were traditionally included in the prefatory material in most mediaeval copies of the Vulgate text of the Gospels. 27. The following extracts are from the prefatory chapter " Beginnings " to the second edition of this book ( 1912 ): 28. Like much of what follows, this prefatory scene has an appealing verve, but it isn't altogether thought through. 29. The first edition contains prefatory verses praising the play and its author, written by Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker among others. 30. I'll ignore Gatoclass's extremely long prefatory attempt to discredit the article itself, because it's irrelevant.