To the Reader. 



hy oppofitioni or countenanced to a reply by confutation^ tvzU 

 within a rvhile^ of themfel'ves, extingitijh and vanijh ': lik^ 

 Come difperfed ro'z/ing winds^ which without enconnter are 

 difpirited and die. And it concerns me^ Courteous Reader^ 

 to put onfnch a confidence 06 this ; for being I am likely to 

 appear in mine orvn perfon^ as I do norv in the perfonofa- 

 nether ', to be too tender-fronted were to im/ite injuries-, and 

 to pro^itute fuch unfeafonahle modefiy to abufe. He that tvill 

 t9 fea^ mufi loeh^for fome cloudy days •■, and to be too fcrupu- 

 lous or Ceremonious touching Times or Peifons,?> the bane 

 of bufinefs^and of all well-meant endeavours : according to 

 that of Solomon, Qpi obfervat vcntHm non feminat , $c 

 qui confideratnubes, nunquam metet. 



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