Dedicatory* 



oobleft variety of Aftes $ Who are your 

 (elf no (lender matter of Antiquities, 

 andean daily command the view of fo 

 many Imperial! faces $ Which ratfeth 

 your thought unto old things, and con* 

 fideration of times before you, when e~ 

 ven living men were Antiquities; when 

 the living might exeeed the dead, and to 

 depart this world, could not be proper 

 ly faid, to go unto the f greater number* f Abtit *d 

 And fo run up your thoughts upon the f^"- 

 ancient of dayes, the Antiquaries trueft 

 objed, unto whom the eldeft parcels are 

 young, and earth it felf an Infant ; and 

 without 8 ^Egyptian account makes but g wMfh 

 fmall noife in thoufands. makes The 



We were hinted by the occafion, not worW fo 



,11 . r i j niany years 



catched the opportunity to write or old old. 

 things, or intrude upon the Antiquary. 

 We are coldly drawn unto difcourfes of 

 Antiquities, who have fcarce time before 

 us to comprehend new things, or make 

 out learned Novelties* But feeing they 

 arofeas they lay,almoft in filence among 

 us, at Icaft in fhort account fuddenly paf- 

 fed over ; we were very unwilling they 

 (hould die again, and be buried twice a- 

 njongus. A $ Befide 



