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Arts and but yet we call) our own. I am gone out from So- 

 fences ^ om > ^ ut * am not yet arrived at my little Zoar. 

 O let meescape thither (is it not a little one?)and 

 my sou I shall live. I do not look back yet ; but I 

 have been forced to stop, and make too many 

 halts. You may wonder, sir (for this seems a 

 little too extravagantand pindarical for prose), 

 what I mean by all this preface ; it is to let you 

 know, that though I have missed, like achemist, 

 my great one, yet I account my affections and 

 endeavours well rewarded by something that I 

 have met with by the bye; which is, that they 

 have procured to me some part in your kindness 

 and esteem : and thereby the honour of having 

 my name so advantageously recommended to 

 posterity, by the epistle you are pleased to pre- 

 fix to the most useful book that has been written 

 in that kind,* and which is to last as long as 

 months and years. 



Among many other arts and excellences, 

 which you enjoy, I am glad to find this favour- 

 ite of mine the most predominant ; that you 

 choose this for your wife, though you have hun- 

 dreds of other arts for your concubines ; though 

 you know them, and beget sons upon them all 

 * Evelyn's KalendariumHorten.se, dedicated to Cowley. 



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