Celestina, or, the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibe

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The be like a Court-lack, which though it be blacke, TIMSTT F ? Dedica- y6 holds as good liquor as your fairest Flagon TORY of silver or like the Rod that Brutus offred to Apollo, which was rough and knottie without, but within, all of furbusht gold. The barke is bad, but the tree good. Vouchsafe then (gentle Sir) to take a little of this coorse and sowre bread; it may be, your stomack being glutted with more delicate Gates, may take some pleasure to restore your appetite with this homely, though not altogether unsavoury food. It is good plaine houshold-bread, honest messeline; there is a great deale of Rye in it, but the most part of it is pure Wheate. Our Author is but short, yet pithy: not so full of words as sense; each other line, being a Sentence; unlike to many of your other Writers, who either with the luxury of their phrases, or superfluity of figures, or superabundancie of ornaments, or other affected guildings of Rhetorick, like undiscreet Cookes, make their meats either too sweet, or too tarte, too salt, or too full of pepper; whence it hapneth, that like greedy Husbandmen, by inlarging their hand in sowing, they make the harvest thin and barren. It is not as many of your Pamphlets be, like a tree without sap; a bough without fruit; a nut without a kernell; flesh with- chapter{{Section 4 out bones; bones without marrow; prickles with- The Tfl-fJTQfTpT fjl out a Rose; waxe without honey; straw without DEDICA. wheate; sulfure without Gold; or shels without Tory pearle. But you shall find Sentences worthy to be written, not in fragile paper, but in Cedar, or last- ing Cypresse, not with the quill of a Goose, but the feather of a Phoenix; not with inke, but Balsalmum; not with letters of a blacke tincture, but with Characters of Gold and Azure;...