IDENTILIN$$ X15800FE (epistle)|1654 (%1CtY%2)|pp. 290-92\JSC\mf\7-8-98\DRD Oct. 06\P:DML\5-12-14 158.00F.HE1 %XINFINITATI SACRUM, /%X16. %1Augusti%2 1601. /%XMETEMPSYCHOSIS. /%X%1Poe%Uma Satyricon%2. /%XE%9pistle%0. 158.00F.HE2om 158.00F.HE3om 158.00F.HE4om 158.00F.HE5om 158.00F.001 O%+Thers at the Porches and en-/tries of their buildings set their 158.00F.002 /Armes; I, my picture; if any /colours can deliver a minde so /plain, and 158.00F.003 flat, and through light as mine. /Naturally at a new Author, I doubt, 158.00F.004 and /stick, and doe not say quickly, good. I cen-/sure much and taxe; 158.00F.005 And this liberty costs /me more then others, by how much my /own things 158.00F.006 are worse then others. Yet I /would not be so rebellious against my 158.00F.007 self, /as not to doe it, since I love it; nor so un-/just to others, to 158.00F.008 doe it %1sine talione%2. As /long as I give them as good hold upon me, 158.00F.009 /they must pardon me my bitings. I forbid /no reprehender, but him 158.00F.010 that like the Trent /Councell forbids not books, but Authors, 158.00F.011 /damning what ever such a name hath or /shall write. None 158.00F.012 writes so ill, that he /gives not somthing exemplary, to follow, 158.00F.013 /or fly. Now when I begin this book, I /have no purpose to come into 158.00F.014 any mans /debt, how my stock will hold out I know /not; perchance 158.00F.015 waste, perchance increase /in use; If I doe borrow any thing of 158.00F.016 Anti-/quity, besides that I make account that I /pay it to posterity, 158.00F.017 with as much, and as /good: you shall still finde me to acknow-/ledge it, 158.00F.018 and to thank not him onely that /hath digg'd out treasure for me, but 158.00F.019 that /hath lighted me a candle to the place. All /which I will bid 158.00F.020 you remember, (for I /will have no such Readers as I can 158.00F.021 teach) /is, that the Pythagorean doctrine doth not /onely carry 158.00F.022 one soul from man to man, /nor man to beast, but indifferently 158.00F.023 to plants /also: and therefore you must not grudge to /finde the same 158.00F.024 soul in an Emperour, in a /Posthorse, and in a Maceron, since 158.00F.025 no un-/readinesse in the soul, but an indisposition /in the Organs works this. And 158.00F.026 therefore /though this soul could not move when it /was a Melon, yet 158.00F.027 it may remember, and /can now tell me, at what lascivious banquet /it 158.00F.028 was serv'd. And though it could not /speake, when it was a Spider, 158.00F.029 yet it can re-/member, and now tell me, who used it for /poyson to 158.00F.030 attain dignity. How ever the /bodies have dull'd her other faculties, 158.00F.031 her /memory hath ever been her own, which /makes me so seriously 158.00F.032 deliver you by her /relation all her passages from her first ma-/king when 158.00F.033 she was that apple which E%9ve%0 /eate, to this time when she is she, whose /life 158.00F.034 you shall finde in the end of this book. 158.00F.0SS [horiz. line across page] [CW:THE] 158.00F.0$$ No ind, but 1st 4 printed ll. wrap around printer's device; loose tracking on 1st l. of HE, very loose on 3rd & 5th ll.; thin horiz. l. across page above%2 Epistle.%1; *D-F setting often drops silent vowels to shorten the line%2