IDENTILIN$$ F158H06E Metem(epistle)|O'Flahertie MS|pp. 89-108\MTH\mf\6-10-94\P:DF\o\Aug-99\C:JSC\9-15-99\DRD 7/6/06 158.H06.HE1 Infinitati Sacrum/ 16. Augusti. 1601./ Metempsychosis/ Poema Satyricon/ Epistle 158.H06.HE2om 158.H06.HE3om 158.H06.HE4om 158.H06.HE5om 158.H06.001 Others at the porches and entryes of theyr buildings/ sett theyr 158.H06.002 Armes; I my picture (if any colours can/ deliuer a mind so playne and 158.H06.003 flatt, and through-light/ as mine). Naturally at a new Author I doubt, 158.H06.004 and/ sticke, and doe not quickly say good. I censure much and/ taxe. 158.H06.005 And this liberty costs mee more then others, by/ how much mine owne things 158.H06.006 are worse then others:/ yet I would not bee so rebellious agaynst my 158.H06.007 selfe/ as not to doe it >since I loue it; nor so vniust to others as to< 158.H06.008 >>doe it<>mee<< my bitings./ I forbidd no rep%5re%6hender but him 158.H06.010 that, like the Trent/ Counsell, forbidds, not bookes, but Authors, 158.H06.011 damning/ whatsoever such a name hath or shall write./ None 158.H06.012 writes so ill that hee giues not somthing exem-/plary to follow, 158.H06.013 or flye. Now when I beginn this/ booke, I haue no purpose to come into 158.H06.014 any mans/ debt. How my stocke will hold out I knowe not,/ Perchance 158.H06.015 waste, perchance increase in vse/ If I doe borrow any thing of 158.H06.016 Antiquity, besides/ that I make Account that I paye it to posterity/ 158.H06.017 with as much and as good, yo%5u%6 shall still find/ mee to acknowledge it, 158.H06.018 and to thanke/[CW:not] [p.90]not him onely that hath digged out treasure for mee,/ but 158.H06.019 that hath lighted mee a candle to the place./ All w%5ch%6 I will bidd 158.H06.020 yo%5u%6 [om] remember (for I would/ haue no such Readers as I can 158.H06.021 teache) is, That/ the Pythagorean doctrine doth not onely carry/ 158.H06.022 one soule from man to man, nor man to beast, but/ indifferently 158.H06.023 to plants also. And therefore yo%5u%6 must/ not grudge to find the same 158.H06.024 soule in an Emperour,/ in a Post-horse, and a Macaron, since 158.H06.025 no vnrea-/dinesse in the soule, but an Indisposicon%M[sic] in the/ Organs workes this. And 158.H06.026 therefore, though this/ Soule could not moue when it was a Melon:/ yet 158.H06.027 it may remember, and can now tell mee/ at what Lasciuious banquet it 158.H06.028 was served./ And though it could not speake when it was a/ Spider: 158.H06.029 yet it can remember, and now tell mee,/ who vs'd it for poyson to 158.H06.030 attayne dignity. However/ the Bodyes haue dulld her other faculties, 158.H06.031 her/ memory hath bin ever her owne; w%5ch%6 makes mee/ so seriously 158.H06.032 deliuer, [om] by her Relation, all her/ passages, from her first making, when 158.H06.033 shee/ was that Apple w%5ch%6 Eve ate, to this time,/ when shee is shee whose life 158.H06.035 yo%5u%6 shall find/ in the end of this booke. [CW:First] 158.H06.0SS [om] 158.H06.0$$ %1No ind; for ease of collation, line-breaks here are Z's (where Z breaks words, entire word given here on line of origin) & "/" = H6's line-breaks; nonscribal insertions in l.7 et al are interlineal; scribal lines drawn over & under "Epistle" in HE%2