Transcriber’s Note

Every attention was paid to retaining the spelling and punctuation of the original, with a few exceptions, noted below.

On occasion, obvious printer’s errors have been modified, e.g. the repetition of words or syllables at line breaks.

The spelling has been left intact, except where there are obvious printer’s errors, or where a more conventional spelling is employed in every other instance. Minor inconsistencies in punctuation have also been corrected, without further mention.

On p. 223, the Latin quotation from Petronius includes the name ‘Aerisium’, which, in the following translation is given as ‘Acresius’. The entire passage from ‘It can make knees bow...’, including the citation from Petronius, seems to have been cribbed from Owen Feltham’s Resolves: divine, morall and politicall, where ‘Acrisium’ appears. Feltham died the year our volume was published, and his Resolves was a very popular in the day and continued to be republished into the 19th century.

The following table summarizes the issues encountered, and their resolution:

p. x inclina[na]tion Removed.

p. 10 they found the contrary to [to] their cost Removed, line break repetition.

p. 33 of such as [as] should live Removed.

p. 38 Dicision sic. ‘Division’

p. 42 Water to Wat[a/e]r, Corrected.

p. 57 transpla[n]ted Added.

p. 73 conclude wi[l/t]h the Poet Corrected.

p. 130 socie[t/i]y Corrected.

p. 131 set [own by and] ancient Patrico sic. ‘down by an’

p. 204 this Mys[s]tery Corrected, line break repetition.

p. 214 them as[ ]soon Added.

p. 223 A[c/e]risium Corrected.

p. 365 acquaintance, [tance] Removed, line break confusion.

p. 376 I [I] seeing this Removed, line break repetition