^Appendix 



If tbou would 1 st be a Gentleman, in more 

 Then title onely ; this Map yeelds thee store 

 Of Observations^ fit for Ornament^ 

 Or use^ or to give curious eares content. 



If thou would 1 st be a Merchant, buy this Books, 

 For V/V a prize worth gold ; and do not looke 

 Daily for such disbursements ; #o, 'tis rare, 

 And should be cast up with thy richest ware. 



Reader, if thou be any, or all three ,- 

 (For these may meet and make a harmonie] 

 Then prayse this Author for his useful! paines, 

 Whose aime is publike good, not private gaines. 



12. WA. 



Preface to ^uarles's " Shepherd's Oracles '' 



(1645) 



To THE READER 

 READER, 



Though the Authour had some years before his lamented death, com- 

 pos'd, review'd, and corrected these Eglogues ; yet, he left no Epistle to the 

 Reader, but onely a Title, and a blanke leafe for that purpose. 



Whether he meant some Allegoricall exposition of the Shepheards names, 

 or their Eglogues, is doubtfull : but 'tis certain, that as they are, they appear 

 a perfect pattern of the Authour ; whose person, and minde, were both lovely, 

 and his conversation such as distill'd pleasure, knowledge, and vertue, into his 

 friends and acquaintance. 



'Tis confest, these Eglogues are not so wholly divine as many of his 

 publisht Meditations, which speak his affections to be set upon things 'that are 

 above, and yet even such men have their intermitted howres, and (as their 

 company gives occasion) commixtures of heavenly and earthly thoughts. 



You are therefore requested to fancy him cast by fortune into the company 

 of some yet unknown Shepheards : and you have a liberty to beleeve 'twas 

 by this following accident. 



" He in a Sommers morning (about that howre when the great eye of 

 " Heaven first opens it selfe to give light to us mortals) walking a gentle 

 "pace towards a Brook (whose Spring-head was not far distant from his 



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