" I study to bring forth some acceptable work : not striving to 

 shew any rare invention that passeth * man's capacity, but to utter 

 and receive matter of some moment known and talked of long ago, 

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

 fruit it hath shewed in the memory of man." — Church-ward, 1588. 



