A 
PREFACE 
T O 
The Eighth TEAR, 
^^^^07^ the JntroduUion to my Sixth Volume lajl foregoini^ 
#1 1 yorrow'd a ferv lines from our famous Cowley ^ here 
^^^^^ i J^^il make bold to take fuller and rvarmer encourage^ 
^^^^^ mentsfrem a Man of far greater renBwn^ and for Learn^ 
ing and Devotion , jointly confidefd, one of the Greatefi that hath 
appear d in the Chriflian wcrld thefe iioo years and upwards. *Tis 
me^ thatgiveth us the old Accompt of the addreffes and affeUionate 
refpeBsy which Wife men bore towards Philofophers, and one Phi* 
l&fopher to another 9 and mthall of the travels and perils they uuc 
dertook by fea and land^ over rocks and mountains^ and through in- 
hofpitable deferts, to vifit the mofl Eminent at the remote fl diftan» 
ces^andfortbe Acquefi of Arts and \norvledge^ The per fon^I mean, 
is St. Hierome, and the words ^ wherein he gives us that relatisn^. 
are ihefe , De Saeculi h&minibus ; 
Legimus in vcteribus Hiftorifs quofdam luftraflfe proTin* 
ciasj novos adiiffe popalos^ maria tranfiifle, ut eas, qbos cx 
Ubris noreraat5<:«r£?/73 quoque viderent. ^xcPythagorasyitm- 
phicicos vates j fic P/df/'^? jEgyptum ^ Architam Tarentkiwm 
mvifitj eamqiieoram Iralias, quas quonda^tej Magna-Grxcia 
dicebatur, peragraviti tit qui Athenis Mapjier -eriity '^ fo* 
tens, cujafque doftriftam Ac^demia^3GytDn:afia perfoi3^banr5 
fieret peregrinus atque Di/^ipulusj maleos aliena verecunde 
difcerej quam fua imprudencer fngererc : Deflique , cum 
literas quafi toto Orbe fagientes perfequitur, captus a Piratis 
arque venundatus , eciam Tyranuo crudeliffimo paruit, du« 
dtus captivus, vin(3:us & fervus • tamen ^uia Philofophus^ mas 
jor emsnte fe fuit^ Ad X Livium^h&Qo eloquentise fonte ma- 
nantem, de ukinais Hifpani^ Galliariimque finibus quofdam 
vcniffe Nobiles legimus j & quos ad conteiiiplationcm fui 
Koma 
