To the Reader • 



His Fable my Lord devifed 3 to the end 

 that He might exhibit therein, a Mo- 

 dell or Vefcrhtion of a Cb/%e,inftituted 

 for the Interpreting of ^Nature , and the 

 producing of (jreat and <i^\4 arvellom Worlds , for 

 the 2fe#jyfc of zSMen; Vnder the Name of 

 W0#x Houfe , or the Ce&ge «S7# ©47*/ Works. 

 And even fo farrehis Lord/hip hath proceeded, as 

 to finifh that Part. Certainly the ^odell is 

 more Vaft, and High, than canpofsibly be imita- 

 ted in all things; Notwithstanding mofl: Things 

 therein are within Mens Power to efTedt. His 

 Lord/hipthought alfo in this preient Fable, to have 

 compofed a Frame otLawes, or of the bett State or 



I <&VLould of a Common-Wealth ; But forefeeing it . 



II would be a long Work, hisDefire of Collecting 

 ijthe Statural Htftory diverted him, which He pre- 

 ferred many degrees before it. 



This Work of the 3\£ew JtlantisQas much as 

 \ concerneth thz Englifb Edition) Wis Lord(bip de- 

 ! figned for this place; In regard it hath fo near Af- 

 finity (in one part of it) with the preceding 3\(a- 

 I tural Viijlory. # 



