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The Epiftle Dedicatory-.
knows that ever same will bite insecret j;
and scourge these Errors of my youth with
private reproaches. But such malignant
tongues 1 will counterpoise with the wind,
and see as lightly by as they arc vain. And al-
though I am confidently perswaded that the
covert of your wings be (ufficiently ableto>
shelter my faults, yet had I rather to exprelse
my duty towards you in these naked mfir-
*Aaiisiite- mities,whose goodness truly knows *how
xarumlig- to pardon the bold adventures of Learning,
v^gedus in ^present you therefore with Athens* whole
Prolog, deplorable raggednelTe my Papers wellre-
semble .' which may challenge this excuse,.
that they assimulate themsel ves to the Trea-
dle in them contained. Which of all men, [
my self am conseious raost infinitely ro have
handled. That Gity once the *nurseof rea-
^Gic.Epift; son; *which ssouriflit in eloquence>& brave
la fia^S).' achievements more than all Gr eece, could
i*. , not, unlessein her miserable ruins, have
without her disgrace been spoken of by me;
Thac Athens whence the Learned Fathers
ofrthe:Ghurch suckt rare literature* Basil his
dd^tteiice^
knows that ever same will bite insecret j;
and scourge these Errors of my youth with
private reproaches. But such malignant
tongues 1 will counterpoise with the wind,
and see as lightly by as they arc vain. And al-
though I am confidently perswaded that the
covert of your wings be (ufficiently ableto>
shelter my faults, yet had I rather to exprelse
my duty towards you in these naked mfir-
*Aaiisiite- mities,whose goodness truly knows *how
xarumlig- to pardon the bold adventures of Learning,
v^gedus in ^present you therefore with Athens* whole
Prolog, deplorable raggednelTe my Papers wellre-
semble .' which may challenge this excuse,.
that they assimulate themsel ves to the Trea-
dle in them contained. Which of all men, [
my self am conseious raost infinitely ro have
handled. That Gity once the *nurseof rea-
^Gic.Epift; son; *which ssouriflit in eloquence>& brave
la fia^S).' achievements more than all Gr eece, could
i*. , not, unlessein her miserable ruins, have
without her disgrace been spoken of by me;
Thac Athens whence the Learned Fathers
ofrthe:Ghurch suckt rare literature* Basil his
dd^tteiice^