Englijb tongue) to the trouble of getting them trans- 
lated. That he is forry to be putt upon a necelSty 
of wrangb'ng, and empty words, (not becaufe he thinks 
it hard to anfwer what Mr. //i!?(?;^objeds, but becaufe 
it is contrary to his inclination, and will take up time 
which might be better imployed,) this being a matter 
nottobe decided by empty words and altercations, but 
by experience and pradiie. That himfelf uleth, in his 
own ftudies, to mind rather his own bufinefs than that of 
others; without prefcribing toothers f Didator-likej 
what fteps they muft follow, and impofe on them his 
own methods and contrivances, as abfokitely the beft, 
lafeft, and fubtileft, of all that may ever be invented 
by any man : whereas Mr. Hoq\, he finds, more inclin- 
ed to meddle with others bufinefs than with his own ^ 
and rather to find fault with what is done by others^ 
than to do any thing himfelf. That he makes it his, 
bufinefs to perfwade him and all the world, that his own 
way is the beft, fafeft, and moft exquifite, which ever 
can be invented by any; reproching this Author ^Xi a- 
long for not obeying him and foil-owing his didlates^ 
(as iixkm Author were one under his command j) Brag- 
ging only of what he can do, but doth nothing. That 
he thinks it would better become Mr. Hook^, to fu- 
fpend his judgement a while till he have taken time 
to examine for at left to itt) what is done by othersi, 
before he talk at this rate of all that is, or hath been, 
or ever fliall be done in the world : while , in the 
mean time, he requires of others to give credit to what 
he fays of his own Obfervationsj before they can be 
feen, and examined, or even made. That if thisy^^- 
thor (who without ftipend or publike falary, without 
being hired or maintaiaed to that purpofe at the charge 
of others, without any duty or obligation upon him 
thereunto, other than his own inclination tothefeftu* 
dies, and his \Yillingnels to fcrve the publike, hath, ac 
