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| Infinitati Sacrum |
| 16. Augusti. 1601. |
| Metempsychosis |
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| Poema Satyricon |
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| Epistle |
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| Others at the porches and entryes of theyr buildings [91] |
| sett theyr Armes; I my picture (if any colour can |
| deliuer a mind so playne and flatt, and through-light |
| as mine). Naturally at a new Author I doubt, and |
| sticke, and doe not quickly say good. I censure much and |
| taxe. And this liberty costs mee more then others, by |
| how much mine owne things are worse then others: |
| yet I would not bee so rebellious agaynst my selfe |
| as not to doe it since I loue it; nor so vniust to others aas to doe it Sine Talione. As long as I giue them |
| as good hold vpon mee, they must pardon mee my bitings. |
| I forbidd no reprehender but him that, like the Trent |
| Counsell, forbidds, not bookes, but Authors, damning |
| whatsoever such a name hath or shall write. |
| None writes so ill that hee giues not somthing exem- |
| plary to follow, or flye. Now when I beginn this |
| booke, I haue no purpose to come into any mans |
| debt. How my stocke will hold out I knowe not, |
| Perchance waste, perchance increase in vse |
| If I doe borrow any thing of Antiquity, besides |
| that I make Account that I paye it to posterity |
| with as much and as good, you shall still find |
| mee to acknowledge it, and to thanke
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