IDENTILIN$$ X15800B.epl|1635 (%1CtY%2)|sigs. A5r-6v\JSC\mf\1-15-98\DRD Oct. 06/P&C:DML\5-28-14 158.00B.HE1 %XINFINITATI SACRVM,/ 16. %1Augusti%2 1601./ %XMETEMPSYCOSIS./ %X%1Poe%Uma Satyricon%2./ %XE%9pistle%0. 158.00B.HE2om 158.00B.HE3om 158.00B.HE4om 158.00B.HE5om 158.00B.001 O%+Thers at the Porches and /entries of their Buil-/dings set their 158.00B.002 Armes; I, /my picture; if any co-/lours can deliver a minde /so plaine, and 158.00B.003 flat, and /through light as mine. Naturally at a new /Author, I doubt, 158.00B.004 and stick, and doe not /say quickly, good. I censure much and /taxe; 158.00B.005 And this liberty costs mee more /than others, by how much my own things 158.00B.006 /are worse than others. Yet I would not be /so rebellious against my 158.00B.007 selfe, as not to /doe it, since I love it; nor so unjust to o-/thers, to 158.00B.008 doe it %1sine talione%2. As long as I /give them as good hold upon mee, 158.00B.009 they /must pardon me my bitings. I forbid no /reprehender, but him 158.00B.010 that like the Trent /Councell forbids not books, but Authors, 158.00B.011 /damning what ever such a name hath /or shall write. None 158.00B.012 writes so ill, that he /gives not some thing exemplary, to fol-/low, 158.00B.013 or flie. Now when I begin this book, /I have no purpose to come into 158.00B.014 any mans /debt, how my stock will hold out I know /not; perchance 158.00B.015 waste, perchance increase /in use; If I doe borrow any thing of 158.00B.016 An-/tiquity, besides that I make account that I /pay it to posteritie, 158.00B.017 with as much, and as /good: you shall still finde me to acknow-/ledge it, 158.00B.018 and to thank not him onely that /hath digg'd out treasure for mee, but 158.00B.019 that /hath lighted me a candle to the place. All /which I will bid 158.00B.020 you remember, (for I /will have no such Readers as I can 158.00B.021 teach) /is, that the Pythagorian doctrine doth not /onely carry 158.00B.022 one soule from man to man, /nor man to beast, but indifferently 158.00B.023 to /plants also: and therefore you must not /grudge to finde the same 158.00B.024 soule in an Em-/perour, in a Post-horse, and in a Maceron /since 158.00B.025 no unreadinesse in the soule, but an /indisposition in the Organs workes this. /And 158.00B.026 therfore though this soule could not /move when it was a Melon, yet 158.00B.027 it may /remember, and can now tell me, at what /lascivious banquet it 158.00B.028 was serv'd. And /though it could not speake, when it was a /Spider, 158.00B.029 yet it can remember, and now tell /mee, who used it for poyson to 158.00B.030 attaine /dignity. How ever the bodies have dull'd /her other faculties, 158.00B.031 her memory hath ever /beene her owne, which makes me so seri-/ously 158.00B.032 deliver you by her relation all her /passages from her first making when 158.00B.033 shee /%Xwas that apple which Eve eate, to this /%Xtime when shee is shee, whose life 158.00B.034 /%Xyou shall finde in the end /%Xof this booke. 158.00B.0SS [three stars, centered, forming an inverted triangle] 158.00B.0$$ %1Printed in front matter as if unrelated to Metem; no ind; 1st letter of text is a drop-cap inside a printer's device; line-breaks here are as in Z (for collation) & / = B's line-breaks; last 4 printed lines are increasingly shorter and centered, tapering toward the decoration at bottom%2. f.6v is blank.