" I >tu(l_\- to bring forth some acceptable work : not striving to sliew 

 any rare invention that jias.seth a man's capacity, liut to utter and 

 recei\e matter of some moment known and talked of long ago, yet o\er 

 long hath been buried, and, as it seemed, lain dead, for any fruit it hath 

 shewed in the memory of man."— CJiuir/nva/if, 1588. 



