IDENTILIN$$ F15800A.epl|1633(M)|Metem(epistle)|pp.[3-5(see notes)]\JSC\facs\1-15-98\P:AWJ\cd(DFo,TxAM(1)),mf(CtY,MH\2-9-05\c:JAH\2-16-05 158.00A.HE1 %XINFINITATI SACRUM,/ %X16. %1Augusti%2 1601./ %XMETEMPSYCOSIS./ %1Poe%Cma Satyricon:%2/ %XE%9pistle%0. 158.00A.HE2 om 158.00A.HE3 om 158.00A.HE4 om 158.00A.HE5 om 158.00A.001 O%+Thers at the Porches and entries of their Buildings set their 158.00A.002 Armes; I, my picture; if any colours can deliver a minde so plaine, and 158.00A.003 flat, and through light as mine. Naturally at a new Author, I doubt, 158.00A.004 and sticke, and doe not say quickly, good. I censure much and taxe; 158.00A.005 And this liberty costs mee more then others, by how much my owne things 158.00A.006 are worse then others. Yet I would not be so rebellious against my 158.00A.007 selfe, as not to doe it, since I love it; nor so un-/just to others, to 158.00A.008 do it %1sine talione%2. As long as I give them as good hold upon mee, 158.00A.009 they must pardon mee my bitings. I forbid no reprehender, but him 158.00A.010 that like the Trent Councell forbids not bookes, but Authors, 158.00A.011 damning what ever such a name hath or shall write. None 158.00A.012 writes so ill, that he gives not some thing exemplary, to follow, 158.00A.013 or flie. Now when I beginne this booke, I have no purpose to come into 158.00A.014 any mans debt, how my stocke will hold out I know not; perchance 158.00A.015 waste, perchance increase in use; if I doe borrow any thing of 158.00A.016 Antiquitie, besides that I make account that I pay it to posterity, 158.00A.017 with as much and as good: You shall still finde mee to acknowledge it, 158.00A.018 and to thanke not him onely that hath digg'd out treasure for mee, but 158.00A.019 that hath lighted mee a candle to the place. All which I will bid 158.00A.020 you remember, (for I will have no such Readers as I can 158.00A.021 teach) is, that the Pithagorian doctrine doth not onely carry 158.00A.022 one soule from man to man, nor man to beast, but indifferently 158.00A.023 to plants also: and therefore you must not grudge to finde the same 158.00A.024 soule in an Emperour, in a Post-horse, and in a Mucheron, since 158.00A.025 no unreadinesse in the soule, but an indisposition in the organs workes this. And 158.00A.026 therefore though this soule could not move when it was a Melon, yet 158.00A.027 it may remember, and now tell mee, at what lascivious banquet it 158.00A.028 was serv'd. And though it could not speake, when it was a spider, 158.00A.029 yet it can remember, and now tell me, who used it for poyson to 158.00A.030 attaine dignitie. How ever the bodies have dull'd her other faculties, 158.00A.031 her memory hath ever been her owne, which makes me so seriously 158.00A.032 deliver you by her relation all her passages from her first making when 158.00A.033 shee was that aple which Eve eate, to this time when shee is hee, whose life 158.00A.034 you shall finde in the end of this booke. 158.00A.0SS [two widely separated horiz. lines across page] 158.00A.0$$ %1No ind; 1st item following title p.--separated from Metem by "THE PRINTER TO THE U%9nderstanders%0." and "%1Hexastichon Bibliopolae%L%2.," subscribed "J%9o%0. M%9ar%0." (presumably publisher John Marriot); line-breaks here are from Z, & / = A's line-breaks; HE4 & HE5 separated by horiz. line across page%2; this poem immed. precedes Metem in L,DFo. TxAM(1),CtY,MH have no "The Printer to" or "Hexa"