IDENTILIN$$ X15800CE|1639 (%1CtY%2)|pp. 300b-e[see notes]\JSC\mf\7-15-98\DRD Oct 06\P:DML\5-12-14 158.00C.HE1 %XINFINITATI SACRVM,/ %X16. %1Augusti%2 1601./ %XMETEMPSYCOSIS./ %X%1Poe%Uma Satyricon%2./ %XE%9pistle%0. 158.00C.HE2om 158.00C.HE3om 158.00C.HE4om 158.00C.HE5om 158.00C.001 O%+Thers at the Porches /and entries of their /Buildings set their 158.00C.002 /Armes; I, my pi-/cture; if any colours /can deliver a minde so plaine, and 158.00C.003 /flat, and through light as mine. Na-/turally at a new Author, I doubt, 158.00C.004 and /stick, and doe not say quickly, good. /I censure much and taxe; 158.00C.005 And this /liberty costs me more than others, /by how much my own things 158.00C.006 are /worse than others. Yet I would not /be so rebellious against my 158.00C.007 selfe, as /not to doe it, since I love it; nor so /unjust to others, to 158.00C.008 doe it %1sine talione%2. /As long as I give them as good hold /upon me, 158.00C.009 they must pardon me my /bitings. I forbid no reprehender, /but him 158.00C.010 that like the Trent Councell /forbids not books, but Authors, 158.00C.011 /damning what ever such a name /hath or shall write. None 158.00C.012 writes so /ill, that he gives not somthing exem-/plary, to follow, 158.00C.013 or flie. Now when /I begin this book, I have no purpose /to come into 158.00C.014 any mans debt, how /my stock will hold out I know not; /perchance 158.00C.015 waste, perchance increase /in use; If I doe borrow any thing /of 158.00C.016 Antiquitie, besides that I make /account that I pay it to posteritie, 158.00C.017 /with as much, and as good: you /shall still finde me to acknowledge /it, 158.00C.018 and to thanke not him onely that /hath digg'd out treasure for mee, but 158.00C.019 /that hath lighted me a candle to the /place. All which I will bid 158.00C.020 you re-/member, (for I will have no such /Readers as I can 158.00C.021 teach) is, that the /Pythagorean doctrine doth not one-/ly carry 158.00C.022 one soule from man to man, /nor man to beast, but indifferently 158.00C.023 /to plants also: and therefore you /must not grudge to finde the same 158.00C.024 /soule in an Emperour, in a Post-/horse, and in a Maceron, since 158.00C.025 no /unreadinesse in the soule, but an in-/disposition in the Organs workes /this. And 158.00C.026 therefore though this /soule could not move when it was /a Melon, yet 158.00C.027 it may remember, and /can now tell me, at what lascivious /banquet it 158.00C.028 was serv'd. And though /it could not speake, when it was a /Spider, 158.00C.029 yet it can remember, and /now tell mee, who used it for poy-/son to 158.00C.030 attaine dignitie. How ever /the bodies have dull'd her other fa-/culties, 158.00C.031 her memory hath ever beene /her owne, which makes me so seri-/ously 158.00C.032 deliver you by her relation all /her passages from her first making /when 158.00C.033 shee was that apple which /E%9ve%0 eate, to this time when shee /is shee, whose life 158.00C.034 you shall finde in /the end of this booke. 158.00C.0SSom 158.00C.0$$ %1No ind; epistle printed on 4 un-numbered pp. between pp. 300 & 301; horiz. line separates HE4 & HE5%2