IDENTILIN$$ F158H04E Metem EPISTLE|ms. Eng. 966.3|ff. 85-94v[w/poem]|JSC\mf\2-4-99\P:DF\o\Aug 99\C:JSC\9-16-99\DRD 7/6/06 158.H04.HE1om 158.H04.HE2om 158.H04.HE3om 158.H04.HE4om 158.H04.HE5om Epistle: [full.HE.recorded.in.poem.file] 158.H04.001 Others at the Porches, and entries of their buildings/ sett their 158.H04.002 Armes, I my Picture, If any collours can/ deliuer[see_notes] a minde soe plaine, and 158.H04.003 flatt and through light/ as mine: Naturallie at a newe Author I doubt 158.H04.004 & stick/ and doe not quickly saie g%>>Gm%>n< mee my/ bitinges; I forbid noe reprehendor, but him 158.H04.009 that/ like the Trent Counsell forbids not bookes but Authors./ 158.H04.011 Damming what euer such a name hath or shall write/ None 158.H04.012 writes soe ill that he giues not something/ exemplary to followe, 158.H04.013 or flie. Nowe when I/ beginne this booke I haue noe purpose to come in/ to 158.H04.014 anie mans debt, howe my stock will hould out/ I knowe not, Perchance 158.H04.015 waste, perchance ~/ increase in vse. %JI%K[%1Mvar%2:>>If<<] %Jdid%K[%1Mvar%2:>>I<<] %Jnot%K[%1Mvar%2:>>do<<] borrowe any thing of 158.H04.016 Antiquitye, besides that, I make accompt [om] I pay/ it to posteritie, 158.H04.017 w%5th%6 as much, and as good yo%5w%6/ shall still finde me to acknowledge it, 158.H04.018 and to/ thanke, not him onely that [om]/ digged out treasure/ for me, but 158.H04.019 that hath lighted mee a candle/ to the place; All w%5ch%6 I will bid 158.H04.020 yo%5w%6 [om] remember/ (for I would haue noe such readers, as I can ~ 158.H04.021 teach) is, That the Pithagorean Doctrine doth/ not onely carrie 158.H04.022 one soule from Man to man,/ nor man to Beast, but indifferently 158.H04.023 to Plants/ [CW:allsoe]/allsoe, And therefore yo%5w%6 must [f.85v] not grudge to finde the/ same 158.H04.024 soule in an Emperour, in a Post=horse, and a/ Musheron: since 158.H04.025 noe vnreadines in the soule, but/ an indisposition in the Organs workes this. And 158.H04.026 therefore though this Soule could not move when it/ was a Melon, yet 158.H04.027 it may remember and nowe tell me/ at what lascivious banquett is 158.H04.028 was seru'd; And/ though it could not speake when it was a Spider 158.H04.029 yet yt can remember, and nowe tell me who vsde/ it for poison, to 158.H04.030 attaine dignitie. Howe euer/ the Bodies haue dulld her other faculties, 158.H04.031 her/ Memorie hath bin euer her owne, w%5ch%6 makes me/ soe seriouslie 158.H04.032 deliuer yo%5w%6 by her relation all her/ passages from her first making, w%5ch%6[sic] 158.H04.033 she was/ that Apple w%5ch%6 Eue eate, to this tyme, when/ she is hee, whose life 158.H04.034 yo%5w%6 shall yo%5w%6[sic]shall finde/ in the end of this booke[%1flourish%2]: [CW:First Songe:] 158.H04.0SS n/a 158.H04.0$$ %1Line breaks recorded here as in Z, & ms. line breaks designated by virgules; where Z hyphenates at line breaks, here the entire word is given on the line of origin; no ind;%2 >>[Omissions}<< %1in RM at ll. 5-7;%2 deliuer %1in l. 2 actually is neither "deliuer" or "delueer" but a fusion of the two--an extra stroke turns the u's 2nd ascender into an e (not the only time this scribe has done this sort of thing)%2