Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . tmies as ivell for explaining a following or precedingpaffage as its own. Ingenuous readers, to you I wijh your heft defires j Grant me too, Ipray,this one, that you read me noty without comparing the faults ejcaped ; I ha^e colleEled them Joryou. Compelled abjence, endeayoured dijpatch, and want oj reyijes Joon hred them. To the au-thor I wijh {as an old cojmographical foet did long fince to himjelj.) ? * KkXcL Qoi vf/,mv To gentlewo
Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . tmies as ivell for explaining a following or precedingpaffage as its own. Ingenuous readers, to you I wijh your heft defires j Grant me too, Ipray,this one, that you read me noty without comparing the faults ejcaped ; I ha^e colleEled them Joryou. Compelled abjence, endeayoured dijpatch, and want oj reyijes Joon hred them. To the au-thor I wijh {as an old cojmographical foet did long fince to himjelj.) ? * KkXcL Qoi vf/,mv To gentlewomen and their loVes, is conjecrated all the wooing language, alluftons to loVe pajflons,and fiveet embracements feigned hy the muje amongft hills and riyers. WhatJoeVer taftes of de-fcription, hattle, ftory, abftruje antiquity, and {which my particular ftudy caufed me Jometitnes re-membcr) laiv of the kingdom j to the more Jeyere reader. To the one, be conteniing enjoymcnts oj their aujpicious deftres : To the other, happy attendance oj theirchojen mujes. * ^hat thegodlike fort of men,may mrthilySwrdonMs khm. From the Ifiner Temple,May, IX. I LLU- ^m 734 ILLUSTRATION O N T H E Firft Eighteen S O N G S O F Draytons Polyolbion. Jllujirations on the firfi Song. IF in piofe and religion, ir were as jufti-fiable, as in poetry and fidtion, ro invoke alocal power (for antiently both Jews,Genttles, and Chrijiians, have fuppofed roevery counrry, a fingular ^ genius) I wouldtherein join wirh rhe aurhor. Howfoever, inthis and all ok Aio? aj5;^o/*g6«j God afore ; and foI begin to you. S. As Amphitrite clt^s thts ijland fortunate. When pope Ckment VI. granred rhe fortu-nate ijles ro Lewis earl of Ckremont, by rhargeneral name (meaning only rhe feven Canaries,and purpofing their chriftian converfion) rheEnglijh ambafladors at Rome, fcrioufly doubted,^ leaft their own country had been comprifedin the donation. They were Henry of Lan-cajter, earl of Derby, Hugh Sfencer, Ralph,lo
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