T O 
The Eighth Y E A R, 
0^ the IniroduUion to my Sixth Volume, laji foregoing^ 
1 borrowed a fern lines from &ur famous Cowley 5 here 
I Jhall make bold' to take fuller and rvarmer encourage^ 
ments from a Man of far greater renown^ and for Learn^ 
ing- and Devotion , jointly confidefd, one of the Greatefi that hath 
nppeard in the Chriflian world thefe 1 200 years and uprpards. 
om^ thatgtveth us thi old Acsompt of the addreffes and affeBionate 
refpeBsy whidW^fe men bore tew aids Philofopbers^ and me Phi" 
h/spher to anstheri and witball of the travels and perils they um 
dertook by fea and lani^ over roeAs and mountains^ and through im 
hofpitable deferts, to vi^t the mo ^ Eminent at tht r emote fl diflam 
§€s^andfQr the Acqmfi of Arts and knowledge^ The perfon^I mean^ 
is St^MiQXom^, and the mnrds^ wherein be gives us that relation^. 
meiMefe , Pe Sceculi hominibus ; 
Legimus in TCteribus Hiftorii's quofdara luftrafle provin* 
ciaSj novos adiilTc popiilos^ maria tranfiiffc, ut eos, quoscx 
Ubris noYQtznx^€$ram (\no(\xxQ vkierent. Sic Tythagorm Mem^ 
phincos vates \ fic Plato ^gyptum 5c Archit^m Tarentimimj 
invifitj eamqiieoram IcaliaSj qiiag quondam Magna Gr^cia 
dieebatiirj, peragravit; at quiAchenis Magifier ^t2.t^ & po- 
renSj ciijafque doftrioani Academise^Gymnafia perlonabant^ 
ieret peregrinusatque Difcipulus*^ makns aliena vereeunde 
difcere p qiiam lua imprudencer ingerere ; Denique 5 cum 
fiteras^quafi roto Orbe fugientes, perfcquitor, captos a Pkatis 
arque veoundatus , etiam Tyranno crudeliffima paruit, du« 
i*tas captiviis, vindtus & fer vos^ tzmtn quia Pbilofophus^ mas 
jor emetrl'e fe fuit^ Ad T, Livium.hdito eloquentias fonte ma- 
lYaoiera^ de altimis Hifpaniie Galliarumque fioibus quofdam 
■^e&iffe Nobiles legimo:^ 5, & quos ad; Gonteinpl^tioiiem fui 
