Excerpt from The Paradise of Martyrs: A Faith Rhyme;, In Five Books Before my Prison-Rhyme, "The Purgatory of Suicides," was finished - thirty years ago - I promised myself to write "The Paradise of Martyrs." A busy life has prevented me from trying to fulfil my promise, in any shape, until very lately. And, even now, I offer but half of my purposed Faith-Rhyme to the world - I mean to the kind people who care to read it. If I do not live to write the other half, these five books are complete in themselves, and will serve to shew what my purpose was; and, perhaps, to over-satisfy many who have, for years, urged me to the fulfilment of my promise. At sixty-eight, one ceases to be sanguine, if not to care, about literary success. I quite expect the critics will cry out, "What tame stuff is this compared with 'the Purgatory'!" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.