IT may be , some Rhetoric●● Praelector holdes it enquirable for the Title , as professing too much of affectation thereunto . Nor do I blame him , when , conferring the importance therof with our impotence , he deprehend not a reason in the very front , or first face of my Booke . It shall suffice , for thy better satisfaction , I was most inward with mine owne defects : which I studied to preserue from seuerer exposition , as thus : If any challenge me for dismembring a good history , which might better haue beene continuated from the beginning , it was not I , but Passion . If , that my Introduction be somewhat too prolix , in respect of the maine sub●ect proposed . All this was of Passion , that once enlargde , is hardly called in and restrained . If that in many of these Plants , I obserue no strict methode or time ; I aunswere still , it was of Passion : One that neuer speakes in numbers , neuer beginnes with a Quande●uidem , or Quemadmodum , one that respectes not the preparatiue complement of hemming or spitting , the authenti●ue stroaking of the beard , or your demure winking . Briefly , one of the most licentious , irregular , and vnformall Libertines of this Age , and notwithstanding as cur●ant for excusable , as the loosers language , or some preuaricator in a learned assembly . From hence I was aduised to assume his sh●pe , as a most spatious protection , which the rather I made personate in the Poet , as well for suggestion of his office , which ought to bee most conuersant in P●ssion out of the abuses of these times , as for conciliation of our true Diuines , whome I onely admire , and not of arrogance , as being sensible of any thing in m●e , which might maintaine such profest impo●tance . He that vrgeth 〈◊〉 further herein , giues me cause , if vnlearned , to suspect his iudgement ; if learned , his seueritie .