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do it) to avoid prolixity of entry, I wish the seeds of thft 

 several arguments to be cast up into some brief and acute 

 t hr^T? * t0 ! ^a, but to be as skeins or bottoms ol 

 thread, to be unwinded at large when they come to be used t 

 supplying authorities and examples by reference. 



&quot;Pro verUslegis. 



Non est interpretatio, seel divinatio, qufe recedit a litera 

 Cum receditur a litera, judex transit in legislatorem 



Pro sententia, legis. 

 x omnibus verbis est eliciendus sensus qui interpretatur singula.&quot; 



(9) Formate to* but decent and apt passages or conveyance* 

 of speech which may serve indifferently for differln^sub 

 Jin I&quot; 8 * P refa f inclusion, d&amp;lt;gressioi tran.slfon excu 

 turn &c. For as in buildings there is great pleasure and 

 f the staircases &amp;gt; entries, 



&quot; A conclusion in a deliberative. 

 the faUltS Pa9sed and prevent the inconveniences 



XIX (1) There remain two appendices touching the tradi 

 tion of knowledge, the one critical, the other pedanticl 

 For all knowledge is either delivered by teachers, m atta ned 

 hymens proper endeavours : and therefore as the iSnoifn 

 part of tradition of knowledge concerned chiefly w?[tmg P of 

 books, so the relative part thereof concerned readino g of 

 books ; whereunto appertain incidently these considerations 

 Ihe first is- concerning the true correction and edition of 

 S?ete wh ^ h nev ^^h diligence hath done^t 

 55 vS 1 Jor 1 these cntlcs hav e often presumed that that 

 which they understand not is false set down: as the priest 

 that, where he found it written of St. Paul Demissusestwr 

 sportam, mended his book, and made it Demi u 1st lr 

 portam; because sporta was a hard word and out of hi, 

 reading: and surely their errors, though they be not so pali 

 able and ridiculous, yet are of the same kind And f&quot; 



the most 





