Occasionally (as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell.
THE FOURTH BOOK The Translator's Preface.
Reader,--I don't know what kind of a preface I must write to find thee courteous, an epithet too often bestowed without a cause.

The author of this work has been as sparing of what we call good nature, as most readers are nowadays.

So I am afraid his translator and commentator is not to expect much more than has been showed them.

What's worse, there are but two sorts of taking prefaces, as there are but two kinds of prologues to plays; for Mr.Bays was doubtless in the right when he said that if thunder and lightning could not fright an audience into complaisance, the sight of the poet with a rope about his neck might work them into pity.

Some, indeed, have bullied many of you into applause, and railed at your faults that you might think them without any; and others, more safely, have spoken kindly of you, that you might think, or at least speak, as favourably of them, and be flattered into patience.