To the Reader. 



catedj fo apply ed., as yon muy fearch all the Comrnenter^ 

 that are extant, and not find the like expo fit ions ^as youJhaU 

 find in him. As for humane Authors he betters his borrow^ 

 jngsfrom them *, teaching the allegations out ofthem^ a fence 

 above the meaning of him that lent it him \ and trhich he 

 repairs too with double interefi for what he borrowed. 

 Thefe confiderat ions intuited me to Marginal Citations. Thefe 

 Keafons fet apart , I cannot appro've this weah^ ambition j 

 and do, not without cenfure, read Modern Authors profti- 

 tnte to humane allegations j as if the Truth they deliifer^ 

 were to be tryed by 'voices '-, or ha'ving lofl its primitive 

 Innocence , inuji be cover d with thefe fig-leaves ; or as if 

 the Authors themf elves were afraid that it fhould mal^e an 

 efcape out of their Text, if it were not be fet in the Margin 

 with Authorities oi with a Watch. T-he laft exception is, 

 touching the Prefaces, and other Introductions prefix'd 

 this work^^ that mal^e the Gates and Entries fo wide, as they 

 feem to invite the City to run away. This is thus anfwerd. 

 It muji be remembred that this worh^ in the Defiqn was 

 very fpaciom , and is in the performance of what is donefo 

 ample, that when the fecond and third farts ^j all be added^ 

 (^as added they will be^ //)e Porches <^«<5^ Ingrefles, in the 

 judgement of any good ArchiteB, are proportionable enouifh. 

 And if our Authors rule hold , that every fair Fabric\ 

 JJjonld have three Courts ', a green Court , a fecond Court 

 more garni fljt , and a third to ma\e afquare with the Front ; 

 then have you here this Epiflle as the mean Court,Judgements 

 upon this Author living and dead, as the middle Court , and 

 the Authors own excellent Preface to confront with the work^ 

 it f elf. Now I {houXd fay fomething touchvig Tianflation i 

 and as it is mine. The very ASiion is fomewhat obnoxiotts 

 to cenfure '■) being of the nature of thofe, the falling whereof 

 may difgrace more, than the carrying of it through, credit 

 the undertaker. But , befides the confcicncQ of the deed 

 done *, for other ends I could not have •, (the Author novo 

 dead, and ^Z/T/emihi nee in;uriisnec bcneficiis notus)d»r/ 

 that to be a Tranflator is more than to be an Author , fome 

 fuch as there be i and that it is no fuch mean office, to bear 

 a light before ^ Lord Chancellor of Enghnd : I JJjould 

 excufe it) were the example mine : fo, writes learned Sa- 



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