Juvenilia

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: To him-felfe, G. F. wifheth // Happineffe. Hou (euen my Selfe) whom next God, my Prince and Country, I am moft engaged vnto; it is not vnlikely, but fome wil wonder, why, contrary to the worlds cuftome, I haue made choife of thy Patronage for this Booke, rather than the protection of fuch whofe Mightineffe...
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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: To him-felfe, G. F. wifheth // Happineffe. Hou (euen my Selfe) whom next God, my Prince and Country, I am moft engaged vnto; it is not vnlikely, but fome wil wonder, why, contrary to the worlds cuftome, I haue made choife of thy Patronage for this Booke, rather than the protection of fuch whofe Mightineffe might feeme better able to defend it; efpecially confide- ring fuch a Gigantiek troupe of Aduerfaries haue banded themfelues againft Virtue, that one of them Gofiah-l'ike, dares raile vpon a whole hoaft of Ifrael. It may be ( fay) fome will wonder, and fome fcoffe at me for it; for which caufe (though to anfwere them with Sic volo had been fumcient: yet to fhew I will not, like our Great-ones, fland fo much vpon A3 mymy authoritie as to make my Will my Rea- fon) I heere let you know why, and for what caufes I haue done it. The firft is this: I could not amongft all men, finde any man, in my opinion, fo fitting for this purpofe, but either my worke was vnworthy, or too worthie his Patronage. Secondly, it is faide; Obfeqtmtm amicos, veritas odium parit: and I doubting my free fpeech would hardly make a Diapafon, pleafing to the care of a common Mec