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Sunt quibus in verbis videorq; obscurior, hoc est,
Evandri cum Matre loqui, Faunisq; Numaq;
Nec secus ac si auctor Saliaris Carminis
essem.
I have read in Cicero, Agellius, Lucians Lexiphanes,
and others, much against that forme; But withall, this later
age (wherein so industrious search is among admired Ruins of
olde Monuments) hath, in our greatest Latine Critiques
Hans Douz, P.Merula, Lipsius and such more, so
received that Saturnian Language, that, to Students
in Philology, it is now grown familiar; and (as he
saith) Verba a Vetustate repetit non solum magnos
Assertores habent, sed etiam asserunt Orationi Majestatem
aliquam, non sine delectatione. Yet for Antique Termes,
to the Learned, I will not justifie it without exception
(disliking not that of Phavorin, Vive Moribus
praeteritis, loquere verbis praesentibus; and, as Coine.
so words, of a publique and knowne stamp, are to bee used)
although so much, as that way I offend, is warranted by
example of such, of whom to endevor imitation allowes me
more then the bare title of Blameles. The purblind
Ignorant I salute, with the English of that Monitory Epigram
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Reprehension of them, whose Language and best learning is
purchast from such Volumes as Rablais reckons in
S. Victors Library, or Barbarous Glosses
Quam nihil as Genium, Papiniane, tuum!
or, which are furnisht in our old stsory, only out of the
Common Polychronicon, Caxton, Fabian, Stow, Grafton,
Lanquet, Cooper, Holingshed (perhaps with gift of
understanding) Polydore, and the rest of our later
Compilers; or, any adventurous Thersites daring find
fault even with the very Graces, in a straine
Cornuna quod vincatq; Tubas ---
I regarde as Metamorphized Lucius his looking out at
window; I Slight, Scorne, and Laugh at it. By
Paragraph's in the Verses you know what I meddle with
in the Illustrations; but so, that with Latitude, the
direction admonishes sometimes as well for explaining a
Following or Preceding passage, as its owne. Ingenuous
Readers, to you I wish your best desires; Grant me too, I
pray, this one, that you read mee not, without comparing the
Faults escaped; I have collected them for you.
Compell'd Absence, endevor'd Dispatch, and
want of Revises soone bred them. To the Author, I
with (as an old Cosmologicall Poet did long since to
himsele.)
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To Gentlewome~ & their Loves is consecrated the
wooing Language, Allusions to Love-Passions,
and sweet Embracements fain'd by
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