To the Reader. 
hh turn^ I muff and do expe^ the lafl) of his tongue^ it being indeed 
his bufine/s to find out the lapfes, and decry all aCtemts, wherein (for- 
footh) he himfelf has not been confulted : But I would have fuch to 
know (jhat if I meet with but proportionable encouragement from the 
former^ 'tis not all they can fay or do, Jhall difcourage me from my 
pnrpofe; for if I have erred in any things I Jhall gladly receive the 
calm reproofs of my Friends, and {till goon till I do underjiand my 
bufinefs aright^ in the mean time contemning the verdid of the igno=. 
rant and faftidious that throw words in ha§f. 
THE 
