Sylva sylvarvm : or, A naturall historie, in ten centuries . To the Reader. Auinghad the Honour to be conti-nually with my Lord, in compi-ling of this JVorkg > And to be em-ploye d therein j I haue thought itnot amifle, ( with his Lordfhipsgood leaue and liking,) for the better fatisfacftionof thofc that fhallreade it, to make knowne fome-what of his LordQiips Intentions, touching theOrdering, and Publishing of the fame. I haueheard hisLordmip often fay • that if hee mouldhaue ferued the glory of hisowne Name, he hadbeen better not to haue publimed this yKQtfrurallHijlory : For it may feeme
Sylva sylvarvm : or, A naturall historie, in ten centuries . To the Reader. Auinghad the Honour to be conti-nually with my Lord, in compi-ling of this JVorkg > And to be em-ploye d therein j I haue thought itnot amifle, ( with his Lordfhipsgood leaue and liking,) for the better fatisfacftionof thofc that fhallreade it, to make knowne fome-what of his LordQiips Intentions, touching theOrdering, and Publishing of the fame. I haueheard hisLordmip often fay • that if hee mouldhaue ferued the glory of hisowne Name, he hadbeen better not to haue publimed this yKQtfrurallHijlory : For it may feeme an Indigefted Heapof Particulars - And cannot haue that Luftre,which Bookes caft into Methods haue: But thathe refolued to preferre the good of Men, andthat which might beft fecure it, before any thingthat might haue Relation to Himfelfe. And heeknew well, that ther was no other way open, tovnloofe Mens mindes, being bound ; and (asit were} Maleficiate, by the Charmesof decei-uing Notions, and Theories - and therby made A Impo To the T^eader. Impotent f
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