Archæologiæ atticæ libri tres : three books of the Attick antiquities, containing the description of the cities glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices, account of their year : as also a full relation of their judicatories . To THE RIGHT ^/VORSHIPFVLL SNathaniel Brent Knight, Vicar General!, and the mofl ylgilam Warden a/Mctton College in Oxford, Healrh, ^T is thccuftomeof mofl J toim-pofe a patrdnagc of their erroursuponfoaiccmincntpcrion. Butk {hall bee my ambition in chistny Dedication to manife^ my obfe
Archæologiæ atticæ libri tres : three books of the Attick antiquities, containing the description of the cities glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices, account of their year : as also a full relation of their judicatories . To THE RIGHT ^/VORSHIPFVLL SNathaniel Brent Knight, Vicar General!, and the mofl ylgilam Warden a/Mctton College in Oxford, Healrh, ^T is thccuftomeof mofl J toim-pofe a patrdnagc of their erroursuponfoaiccmincntpcrion. Butk {hall bee my ambition in chistny Dedication to manife^ my make their choice of potent men,thereby to fliun the dirts of envy. It Aiail bemy glory to be thought worthy of in vidency ^whofe igi\9raace is not fb great but well ^ % knowes. knowcs that ever lorae will bite in fccrct j andfcourgc thefc errours of my youth with pri-vate reproaches. But fuch malignant tonguesI will counterpoifc with the winde; and letas lightly by as they arc vaine. Andahhoughlam confidently perlwaded that the coVi^rcof your wings bee fufficiently able to (hcicermy faultsi yet had I rather to expreffe my du-tie towards you in thefe naked infirmities,?Aufis liccta^ whole eoodnelTc truely knowcs how * to rum ignofccrc « iiiii r i • ^ r vegGciusin pardon the bold adventures or learning, 1 ^°°^* preleiit you therefore with Athens, whofe deplorable raggedneflfc my papers well re- femble, which may challenge this escufe, thai they afliraulate themlelves to the Frea- tife in them contained i Which of all men, I my felfe am confcious moft unfitly to have »cic. Epift. handled. That Sicieoncc the * nurle of rca- fine L^b!!. fon; * which flouriftit in cloqijcncc, and brave atchievements, more then all Greece ^ could not, unlefle in hec miiecab
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