To
the
most
Reuerend
Father
in
God
.
the
Lo:
Archb:
o
Canterbury
&c.
and
to
the
Reuerend
LLs.
Bishops
,
&
others
;
in
the
Conuocation
house
assembled
.
MOst
Reuerent
Fathers
;
Notwithstanding
I
acknowledge
my selfe
vnworthie
,
that
this
Reuerend
Assembly
should
from
their
more
w●…ighty
affaires
,
turne
their
eyes
,
or
inclyne
their
eares
to
my
priuate
Fortunes
:
Yet
if
those
testimonies
,
which
I
haue
already
giuen
of
my
true
affection
to
the
peace
&
prosperity
of
that
Church
and
Common-wealth
,
of
which
you
are
members
:
or
my
promise
of
future
indea●…ours
,
or
your
owne
pious
inclinations
may
deserue
▪
so
much
for
me
▪
I
humbly
beseech
your
Reuerences
,
to
receiue
this
following
declaration
,
into
your
serious
and
christian
considerations
,
and
to
●…ouchsafe
respect
thereunto
,
according
to
the
piety
becomming
this
Reuerent
Assembly
,
and
that
rule
of
charity
,
which
commaundeth
al
men
(
without
exception
)
to
be
so
inclyned
towards
others
,
as
they
desire
others
should
bee
affected
towards
them
in
the
like
necessities
.
For
▪
most
Reuerend
Fathers
,
I
am
not
ashamed
to
confesse
that
an
extraordinary
necessitie
hath
inuited
me
to
interrupt
you
in
this
vnusuall
manner
.
And
yet
mistake
me
not
,
I
am
not
so
necessitated
,
as
be
in
doubt
of
falling
into
base
want●…
or
to
feare
I
can
bee
ouertaken
with
any
inconuenience
,
from
which
I
could
not
be
deliuered
without
your
commiseration
,
but
perhaps
rather
,
God
hath
layd
his
hand
on
me
by
some
affliction
,
that
I
might
be
constrayned
to
offer
that
vnto
your
considerations
for
my
priuate
ease
,
which
I
should
neuer
haue
found
opportunity
to
present
for
the
publike
good
,
if
oppressions
had
not
prepared
me
thereunto
.
Cammomile
thriues
not
vnles
it
be
trodden
on
;
the
plate
must
to
the
hammer
before
it
wil
be
in
fashion
:
and
such
is
our
naturall
corruption
,
and
selfe
loue
,
that
till
the
sparkes
touch
our
own
houses
,
we
can
sleepe
though
the
citie
be
on
a
flame
.
Nay
,
euen
those
who
are
grapes
of
the
mysticall
vine
Iesus
Christ
,
must
bee
crushed
in
the
winepresse
,
or
brused
on
the
tongue
,
at
the
least
,
before
they
yeald
any
profitable
nourishment
.
If
it
be
so
with
me
,
though
my
particular
smart
hath
giuen
the
occasion
of
this
narration
,
somewhat
may
ere
the
conclusion
,
bee
deliuered
not
impertinent
to
more
generall
consideration
.
And
once
againe
therfore
I
beseech
your
patience
.
About
the
time
of
the
last
Conuocation
,
I
composed
a
little
Poeme
,
well
knowen
throughout
this
kingdome
;
wherin
haueing
to
conscionable
purposes
,
expressed
such
resolutions
,
as
euery
reasonable
man
should
endeauour
to
entertayne
.
And
hauing
as
opportunity
was
offered
,
glaunced
also
in
generall
tearmes
at
the
reproofe
of
a
few
thinges
of
such
nature
as
I
feared
might
disparage
or
preiudice
the
Common-wealth
;
some
particulars
,
not
then
in
season
to
bee
medled
withall
,
were
at
vnawares
so
neerely
toucht
vpon
,
that
I
vnhappily
fell
into
the
displeasure
of
the
State
:
and
all
my
apparant
good
intentions
were
so
mistaken
by
the
aggrauations
of
some
yll
affected
towards
my
indeauours
,
that
I
was
shutt
vp
from
the
society
of
mankind
.
And
as
one
vnworthy
the
compassion
vouchsafed
to
theeues
and
murderers
,
was
neither
permitted
the
vse
of
my
penne
,
the
accesse
or
sight
of
acquaintance
,
the
allowance
vsually
afforded
other
close
prisoners
,
nor
meanes
to
send
for
necessaries
beefitting
my
present
condition
.
By
which
meanes
I
was
for
many
dayes
compelled
to
feed
on
nothing
but
the
coursest
bread
,
and
sometymes
lockt
vpp
foure
and
twenty
howers
togeather
,
without
so
much
as
a
dropp
of
water
to
coole
my
tongue
.
And
beeing
at
the
same
tyme
in
one
of
the
greatest
extremityes
of
sicknesse
that
was
euer
inflicted
vpon
my
body
,
the
helpe
both
of
Phisition
,
and
Apothecary
was
vnciuilly
denied
me
.
So
that
if
God
,
had
not
by
resolutions
of
the
minde
which
he
infused
into
mee
,
extraordinarily
inabled
me
to
wrestle
with
those
,
&
such
other
aflictions
as
I
was
then
exercised
withall
,
I
had
beene
dangerously
and
euerlastingly
ouercome
.
But
,
of
these
vsages
I
complaine
not
;
for
,
they
are
past
:
&
He
that
made
me
,
made
me
strong
enough
to
despise
them
.
Nor
doe
I
here
mention
them
as
accusing
the
State
of
iniustice
:
God
forbidd
.
For
I
assure
my selfe
my
restraint
was
iust
vntill
such
tyme
as
I
had
acquited
my selfe
of
what
was
layd
to
my
charg
;
Yea
I
assure
myselfe
the
seuerity
of
my
sufferings
was
vn
knowne
to
that
most
honorable
counsel
which
ommitted
mee
;
and
that
more
fauour
should
haue
beene
shewed
,
if
meanes
had
beene
afforded
mee
to
complain●…
;
Because
as
soone
as
I
had
opportunity
to
iustifie
my
honest
intentions
,
and
to
giue
reasons
for
my
questionable
expressions
▪
I
was
restored
to
the
common
liberty
;
(
as
I
perswade
my selfe
)
both
with
the
good
fauour
of
the
King
,
and
of
all
those
that
restrayned
mee
.
For
,
the
greatest
faulte
which
ouer
I
committed
,
confessed
,
or
others
coulde
discouer
in
those
writings
;
was
this
,
that
they
fauoured
a
little
more
of
Honesty
then
discretion
.
And
verily
should
euery
man
publickely
〈◊〉
for
his
indiscretions
as
I
haue
done
,
our
prisons
must
be
made
larger
then
our
streetes
.
The
reason
then
why
I
thus
begin
this
discourse
with
relation
of
my
past
indurances
,
is
to
sharpen
the
dulnesse
of
my
oratorie
on
the
remembrance
of
those
things
,
and
to
begett
in
your
hearts
the
more
feeling
of
that
christian
compun●…tion
which
they
must
entertaine
before
this
declaration
,
that
I
nowe
intend
wil
be
of
any
force
.
And
least
I
haue
not
yet
deliuered
enough
in
that
kind
,
to
stirre
vp
your
regard
,
I
will
(
vnder
your
fauours
)
proceede
a
little
further
in
the
discouery
of
my
outward
fortunes
,
before
I
propose
what
principally
I
doe
desire
this
reuerend
Ass●…mbly
should
please
to
take
notise
of
.
May
it
please
you
then
to
vnderstand
,
that
my
punishment
ended
not
with
my
imprisonment
.
For
,
before
I
had
lycence
to
come
abroad
againe
into
the
world
,
I
was
forced
to
expences
so
farre
beyond
my
abillity
,
that
ere
I
could
be
clearely
discharged
,
I
was
left
many
pounds
worse
then
nothing
:
And
to
inioy
but
the
name
of
liberty
,
was
cast
into
a
greater
bondage
then
before
.
Wherevpon
,
comming
abroade
againe
into
the
worlde
accompanyed
thither
with
those
affections
which
are
natural
to
most
men
,
I
was
loth
(
if
it
might
conueniently
be
preuented
)
either
to
sinke
belowe
my
ranke
,
or
to
liue
at
the
mercy
of
a
creditor
.
And
therefore
(
haueing
none
of
those
helps
,
or
trades
,
or
shifts
,
which
many
others
haue
to
releeue
themselues
withal
)
I
humbly
peticioned
the
Kings
most
excellent
Maiestie
(
not
to
be
supplyed
at
his
charge
,
or
by
any
proiectment
to
the
oppression
of
his
people
)
but
that
according
to
the
lawes
of
nature
,
I
might
enioy
the
benifit
of
some
part
of
myne
owne
labours
,
by
virtue
of
his
Royall
priuiledge
.
For
,
by
an
vniust
custome
(
as
most
of
your
Reuerences
well
knowe
)
the
Stationers
haue
so
vsurped
vpon
the
labours
of
all
writers
,
that
when
they
haue
consumed
their
youth
and
fortunes
in
perfiting
some
laborious
worke
,
those
cruell
B●…e-masters
burne
the
poore
Athenian
bees
for
their
hony
,
or
else
driue
them
from
the
best
part
thereof
by
their
long
practiced
cunninge
.
Which
to
preuent
,
his
Maiestie
vouchsafed
my
reasonable
request
,
with
addition
of
voluntary
fauour
,
〈◊〉
mine
owne
desire
.
For
,
before
his
warrant
to
Master
Attorny
,
he
gratiously
expressed
his
royall
comm●…ndatory
allowance
of
my
Booke
,
which
I
had
presented
him
withall
,
peticioning
his
priuiledge
for
printing
thereof
.
And
both
in
the
procur●…ing
of
it
,
and
in
the
passing
of
his
Graunt
,
I
tooke
no
other
course
,
then
what
I
haue
hitherto
vsed
,
and
purpose
to
vse
for
euer
in
all
myne
affaires
:
that
is
;
neither
directly
,
nor
indirectly
to
solicite
any
man
to
fauour
me
,
otherwise
than
he
shal
be
moued
by
his
owne
conscience
,
and
the
iustnes
of
my
cause
,
when
I
haue
made
means
to
discouer
the
true
state
thereof
to
his
vnderstanding
.
Nor
was
this
manner
of
proceeding
any
hindrance
vnto
me
;
for
my
Graunt
neuerthelesse
passed
his
Maiesties
hand
and
euery
office
after
(
where
many
times
le
ts
are
cast
in
the
way
)
with
so
much
vnusual
fauour
,
and
such
good
wishes
,
besides
expedition
,
that
I
was
greatly
incouraged
to
ingage
my
credit
almost
three
hundred
poundes
further
thereupon
;
to
imprint
,
and
diuoulge
my
Booke
,
according
to
his
Maiesties
Letters
Pattents
.
All
which
expence
,
together
with
my
paynefull
endeauours
,
are
now
in
danger
to
be
lost
,
to
the
ouerthrow
of
my
new
hopes
;
and
(
which
is
my
greater
griefe
)
to
the
hinderance
of
those
my
friends
,
who
haue
aduentured
their
goods
in
my
sinking
vessell
.
For
,
some
of
the
Booke-sellers
(
who
like
the
Siluer
Smithes
of
Ephesus
,
preferr
their
vniust
gaine
before
conscience
,
or
piety
)
though
their
Corporation
hath
much
profited
,
and
is
daily
inriched
by
my
former
labors
,
though
they
may
haue
benifit
by
this
in
question
;
though
they
are
not
ignorant
of
the
greate
troubles
,
and
hinderances
I
haue
receiued
by
that
which
did
the
more
aduantage
them
;
though
they
are
priuie
to
my
large
expence
in
this
worke
,
and
howe
much
it
wil
be
my
vndoing
to
the
world-ward
,
if
it
succeede
not
;
though
they
knowe
it
fauoured
both
by
his
Maiestie
and
those
also
who
are
esteemed
amonge
the
most
deuout
,
and
learned
of
the
Clergie
;
though
their
owne
consciences
(
whatsoeuer
they
pretend
)
tel
them
it
tendes
to
the
glory
of
God
,
and
the
furtherance
of
true
deuotion
,
without
preiudice
to
any
particuler
man
;
yea
,
though
I
haue
orderly
proceeded
in
receiuing
the
benefit
of
mine
own
labours
,
without
taking
away
the
least
part
,
either
of
their
,
or
of
any
other
mans
iust
profit
:
I
say
,
notwithstanding
all
this
,
they
indeauoured
,
without
all
compassion
,
or
honest
consideration
,
not
only
to
procure
the
ouerthrow
of
my
Graunt
,
and
with
it
(
so
farr
as
in
them
lyes
)
my
ruin
also
,
because
I
would
not
let
them
haue
the
benifit
therof
at
their
owne
rates
:
But
haue
publikly
,
and
vniustly
slaundered
me
,
as
one
that
had
proiected
,
and
procured
a
priuiledge
to
the
generall
greeuance
of
the
subiect
;
which
thing
I
vtterly
abhorr
.
Nor
haue
they
thought
it
sufficient
ingratfully
to
seeke
the
compassing
of
their
owne
ends
,
by
the
ruine
both
of
his
state
and
good
name
,
whose
former
studies
haue
beene
a
meanes
to
helpe
the
raysing
of
them
;
But
they
will
disparage
the
Kinges
power
and
iudgment
,
rather
then
fayle
.
Nay
,
to
shew
themselues
suparlatiuely
dareing
to
attempt
any
thinge
to
further
their
designes
,
there
be
of
that
generation
,
(
I
beseech
your
patience
,
if
passion
may
seeme
to
carrye
me
away
:
t
is
in
the
cause
of
God
)
I
say
there
be
some
of
them
,
who
spare
not
God
himself
,
and
his
religion
:
but
(
AVDAX
OMNIA
PERPETI
)
haue
blasphemed
the
sacred
expressions
of
the
holy
Spirit
,
and
vnchristianly
vilified
that
Booke
which
supreame
Authority
hath
commaunded
to
be
published
for
the
reuerence
and
practice
of
deuotion
.
And
because
in
doing
this
,
they
would
not
seeme
so
prophane
,
as
to
make
their
gaine
,
the
cause
of
their
opposition
,
nor
be
thought
so
heathenish
as
to
call
out
for
Diana
with
their
types
at
Ephesus
,
they
crye
,
TEMPLVM
DOMINI
,
the
Temple
of
the
Lord
;
and
craftily
cullor
their
ayme
with
the
cloak
of
sanctity
,
and
zeale
of
true
religion
.
Yea
they
are
growen
so
malepert
,
and
arrogant
,
that
being
but
the
pedlers
of
Books
,
and
for
the
most
part
ignorant
fellowes
(
acquainted
with
nothing
concerning
them
,
but
their
names
,
and
pryses
)
they
neuerthelesse
dare
take
vpon
them
the
miscensuring
of
any
mans
labours
though
allowed
by
authority
.
In
this
kind
,
among
diuers
others
,
I
at
this
present
suffer
their
inisusag
in
a
high
measure
.
And
in
me
they
haue
abused
the
King
,
the
State
,
and
the
whole
Hierarchy
;
Yea
God
,
and
religion
.
Hauing
therfore
propoposed
their
iniuries
of
other
natures
,
to
the
consideration
of
them
,
vnto
whome
properly
they
belong
:
I
am
bould
to
appeale
yet
hither
,
that
I
may
obtaine
the
censure
of
this
most
reuerend
Conuocation
,
concerning
those
particulers
which
are
most
genuine
to
be
determined
of
in
this
place
I
doe
protest
vnfaynedly
,
that
I
will
deliuer
nothing
in
my
relation
,
which
proceedes
from
spleene
or
malice
:
nor
expresse
my selfe
in
more
sharpe
tearmes
,
then
my
conscience
shal
witnes
charitable
,
and
necessary
,
to
let
your
Reuerences
vnderstand
the
height
of
those
iniurys
,
that
I
am
to
complayne
on
;
and
the
liuely
character
of
those
fellowes
,
whose
in●…ignityes
the
whole
common-wealth
of
learning
suffers
vnder
.
For
they
haue
by
their
sly
insinuations
,
and
honest
pretences
so
farre
screwed
themselues
into
the
good
opinion
of
many
Reuerend
,
and
Honorable
parsonages
,
and
so
strengthened
themselues
through
the
abuse
of
their
fauours
;
that
my
fingers
will
not
serue
,
and
therefore
pardon
me
if
in
a
case
of
necessity
,
I
somtime
vse
my
teeth
to
plucke
those
rusty
nayles
,
forth
of
the
faire
table
of
their
yll
deserued
esteeme
.
Neuerthelesse
conceiue
me
not
,
I
pray
you
,
that
I
goe
about
to
lay
a
generall
ymputation
vp
●…n
all
S●…tioners
.
For
,
to
disparage
the
whole
profession
,
were
an
act
neither
becomming
an
honest
m●…n
to
doe
,
no●…
a
prudent
Auditory
to
suffer
.
Their
mystery
(
as
th●…y
not
vntruly
tearme
it
)
consists
of
diuers
Trades
incorporated
together
:
as
Printers
,
Booke-bin●…s
▪
Clas●…makers
,
Bookesellers
.
&c.
And
of
all
these
b●…
some
honest
men
,
who
to
my
knowledg
are
so
greeued
being
ouer-born
by
the
notorious
oppressions
and
proceedings
of
the
rest
,
that
they
haue
wished
themselues
of
some
other
calling
.
The
Printers
mystery
,
is
ingenious
,
paynefull
,
and
profitable
:
the
Booke-bin●…●…cessary
;
the
Claspemakers
vsefull
.
And
in
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
r●…tailer
of
bookes
,
commonly
〈◊〉
a
Booke-seller
,
is
a
Trade
,
which
being
wel
gouerned
▪
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
●…in
certaine
bounds
,
might
become
somewhat
seruiceable
to
the
rest
.
But
as
it
is
now
(
for
the
most
part
abused
)
the
Bookeseller
hath
not
onely
made
the
Printer
,
the
Binder
,
and
the
Claspmaker
a
slaue
to
him
:
but
hath
brought
Authors
,
yea
the
whole
Common-wealth
,
and
all
the
liberall
Sciences
into
bondage
.
For
he
makes
all
professers
of
Art
,
labour
for
his
profit
,
at
his
owne
price
,
and
vtters
it
to
the
Common-wealth
in
such
fashion
,
and
at
those
rates
,
which
please
himselfe
.
In-somuch
,
that
I
wonder
so
insupportable
,
and
so
impertinent
a
thing
,
as
a
meere
Book-seller
(
considering
what
the
profession
is
become
now
)
was
euer
permitted
to
grow
vp
in
the
Commonwealth
.
For
,
many
of
our
moderne
booke-sellers
,
are
but
needelesse
excrements
,
or
rather
vermine
,
who
beeing
ingendred
by
the
sweat
of
schollers
,
Printers
,
and
book-binders
,
doe
(
as
wormes
in
timber
,
or
like
the
generation
of
vipers
)
deuour
those
that
bred
them
.
While
they
did
like
fleas
,
but
sucke
now
and
then
a
dropp
of
the
writers
blood
from
him
,
and
skipp
off
when
he
found
himselfe
diseased
,
it
was
somwhat
tollerable
:
but
since
they
began
to
feed
on
him
,
like
the
third
plague
of
AEGIPT
without
remoouing
,
and
to
lay
clayme
to
each
Authors
labours
,
as
if
they
had
beene
purposely
brought
vpp
to
studye
for
their
mayntenance
.
Yea
,
since
they
take
vppon
them
to
publish
bookes
contriued
,
altered
,
and
mangled
at
their
owne
pleasurs
,
without
consent
of
the
writers
:
nay
and
to
change
the
name
someyms
,
both
of
booke
and
Author
(
after
they
haue
been
ymprinted
)
and
all
for
their
owne
priuate
lucre
;
like
traders
in
stuffes
,
who
vnder
new
names
,
many
tymes
shift
off
their
old
wares
.
And
yet
further
also
,
to
disparage
,
or
censure
maliciously
,
both
writers
,
and
their
labours
,
and
so
vsurp
vnto
themselues
the
high
authority
of
the
Church
and
State
.
I
say
these
things
considered
,
it
is
high
tyme
to
seeke
a
remedie
,
and
a
remedy
(
I
hope
)
wil
shortly
be
prouided
in
due
place
.
In
the
meane
tyme
I
humbly
beseech
this
reuerend
Assembly
,
to
take
an
assay
of
them
in
my
particular
cause
,
and
in
their
manner
of
dealing
with
me
touching
that
booke
before
mentioned
,
&
lately
priuiledged
by
his
Maiesty
.
For
,
they
haueing
very
vnchristianlik
traduced
both
my selfe
,
and
it
,
I
will
(
according
to
my
duty
)
giue
vnto
your
Reuerences
,
a
true
account
of
all
my
principall
proceedings
,
and
intentions
,
and
my
reasons
against
their
fayned
obiections
;
together
with
what
was
by
authority
determyned
by
that
work
.
And
then
leaue
my selfe
,
and
it
,
vnto
your
Reuerences
,
to
approue
,
alter
,
amend
,
or
condemne
,
as
you
shall
thinke
fytt
.
wherein
I
will
rest
satisfied
,
although
it
be
to
th●…
ouerthrowing
both
of
my
credit
and
estate
.
First
then
,
may
it
please
you
to
vnderstand
,
that
being
from
my
childhood
in
loue
with
the
study
of
Diuinity
(
though
I
haue
yet
,
neither
knowledge
,
nor
opinion
in
my selfe
worthy
of
so
high
a
calling
)
I
ymployed
that
naturall
faculty
which
God
had
giuen
me
vpon
such
expressions
,
as
sauouring
of
honesty
,
and
religion
,
won
me
the
generall
good
opinyon
of
honest
men
.
And
though
I
was
so
young
euery
way
,
that
,
I
first
began
to
write
,
and
then
to
learne
(
as
the
childishnesse
,
and
indiscretions
of
my
Poems
discouer
)
yet
they
procured
me
much
respect
,
and
applause
.
which
well
con
sidering
on
,
and
weighing
my
knowne
insufficiencies
,
the
slendernesse
of
my
performances
,
and
my
little
meanes
of
knowledge
,
together
with
what
base
entertaynment
lynes
of
that
nature
vsually
finde
in
the
world
:
I
began
to
parswade
my selfe
,
that
God
had
extraordinarily
gyuen
me
this
vnlooked
for
esteeme
to
some
better
purpose
,
then
eyther
that
I
should
dispyse
the
same
,
or
glory
in
it
to
a
vayne
end
.
And
that
which
made
me
giue
most
fayth
to
such
an
apprehension
,
was
this
:
I
obserued
,
that
the
good
repute
which
I
had
attayned
vnto
,
neuer
gott
me
any
outward
profit
,
nor
euer
be
fryended
mee
in
the
compassing
of
any
thinge
for
my
pleasure
.
Wherevpon
,
least
God
should
turne
his
blessing
to
a
curse
,
and
my
reputation
to
my
shame
,
if
I
sought
not
what
way
to
ymploy
it
,
vnto
his
prayse
:
and
obseruing
withall
,
that
we
make
vse
of
the
most
excelent
expressions
of
the
holy
ghost
in
rude
,
and
barbarous
Numbers
,
whilst
our
own
wanton
fancies
were
paynted
,
&
trymed
out
in
the
most
moouing
languag
.
Me
thought
it
fared
with
vs
,
as
with
those
agaynst
whom
the
Prophet
Hosea
complayned
,
that
dwelt
in
sieled
houses
themselues
,
whilst
the
Temple
of
God
lay
wast
And
therefore
seeing
no
other
to
vndertake
the
same
,
I
spent
about
three
yeeres
,
to
prepare
my self
▪
for
such
a
I
aske
,
and
then
proceeded
with
the
translation
of
the
Psalmes
according
to
that
ability
God
had
giuen
me
.
But
before
I
had
halfe
ended
them
I
heard
that
one
of
much
better
sufficiency
had
made
a
long
,
and
happy
progresse
into
that
worke
:
and
therevpon
in
expectation
of
his
more
able
performance
delayed
to
proceed
with
what
I
had
begunne
,
vntill
such
tyme
as
I
was
informed
that
the
other
was
by
the
multiplicity
of
weighty
Affayres
compelled
to
giue
ouer
his
laborious
Attempt
.
And
then
▪
I
thought
my selfe
engaged
agayne
,
to
proceede
.
Now
,
dureing
the
tyme
of
intermission
as
aforesaid
,
that
I
might
not
want
an
imployment
answereable
to
my
first
intention
I
was
by
some
of
the
Clergy
(
who
I
hope
were
moqued
there
unto
by
the
Spirit
of
God
)
inui●…ed
to
collect
and
translate
into
Lyricke-verse
▪
the
Hymnes
dispersed
▪
throughout
the
Canonicall
Scriptures
.
Which
I
imbraced
with
much
readynes
,
&
persoi●…d
willingly
;
adding
vnto
them
such
other
par●…ds
of
Holy-writt
,
Creeds
and
Songs
,
as
I
conceiued
proper
and
necessary
to
be
sunge
.
And
,
because
some
can
well
enough
allowe
an
endlesse●…
variety
of
foolish
Songs
and
ballads
,
●…ending
to
the
〈◊〉
of
the
flesh
and
the
deuill
,
yet
be
apt
to
say
,
wee
〈◊〉
Psalmes
,
and
Songes
enough
in
this
kind
already
.
And
so
〈◊〉
also
,
as
I
haué
heard
others
(
who●…
presume
much
on
their
own
fo●…ndnes
in
〈◊〉
)
in
norant
by
demaund
,
what
the
Songs
of
Mo●…s
,
Deb●…rah
,
〈◊〉
&
s●…ch
like
,
are
perti●…ēt
vnto
vs
.
To
let
those
,
&
〈◊〉
vnlerned
,
&
ignorant
men
know
,
that
the
Holy
Ghost
〈◊〉
none
of
the
Canonicall
Scriptures
tyll
these
tymes
of
〈◊〉
in
〈◊〉
haue
in
a
short
Proeme
(
●…ding
to
the
opinion
of
the
true
Church
)
declared
:
that
those
Scriptures
,
are
euery
whitt
as
vsefull
and
necessary
for
vs
,
as
for
them
in
whose
tymes
,
and
for
whose
particuler
occasions
they
were
first
written
.
And
before
each
Hymne
,
I
haue
presixed
also
a
briefe
preface
,
to
shew
in
what
sence
the
congregation
,
or
men
may
priuately
,
and
ought
to
repeat
them
.
Moreouer
,
hauing
with
griefe
obserued
,
how
the
Church
of
England
(
lyke
Iesus
Christ
crucified
betwen
two
theeues
)
is
traduced
,
and
abused
between
Papists
,
and
Schismatiks
:
the
one
falsly
charging
her
with
want
of
order
,
and
christian
discipline
;
the
other
as
vniustly
vpbrayding
her
with
popish
and
superstitious
obseruations
.
And
hauing
experience
,
that
there
are
great
multitudes
of
wel
affected
people
,
easie
to
be
led
aside
for
company
into
the
later
ouersight
,
through
want
of
some
to
informe
them
better
,
who
would
with
smal
ado
be
conformable
,
if
they
had
meanes
of
instruction
concerning
their
particuler
mistakings
.
Yea
,
many
of
these
being
wel
inclyned
towards
me
;
and
I
not
knowing
which
way
to
vse
that
affection
better
,
then
to
make
it
a
meanes
of
increasing
christian
vnity
and
devotion
.
I
resolued
to
publish
some
what
,
to
stirre
vp
in
them
that
obedience
and
reuerence
,
which
they
ought
to
expresse
towardes
the
pious
ordinances
of
the
Church
:
and
if
I
lost
any
mans
esteem
for
so
conscionable
an
attempt
;
I
assured
my self
I
lost
nothing
but
what
was
neuer
worth
the
sauing
.
To
that
end
therefore
(
hauing
receiued
incouragment
and
taken
aduice
,
from
some
of
the
most
deuout
,
and
learned
of
our
Deuines
)
I
composed
certayne
Hymnes
,
and
Songes
,
appropriated
to
the
ordynary
publike
occasions
of
our
Congregations
,
and
to
those
tymes
obseruable
by
commaund
of
the
Churche
,
and
by
the
authority
of
the
State
;
that
soe
God
might
bee
gloryfied
in
euery
Solempnity
,
and
those
tymes
not
so
much
prophaned
and
contemned
,
as
heretofore
.
And
,
because
I
had
heard
some
Teachers
in
Israel
professe
themselues
ignorant
concerning
the
vse
of
the
Holy-days
obserued
in
our
Church
,
I
tooke
the
more
paines
(
though
not
presuming
to
teach
them
)
to
expresse
before
the
proper
Song
of
euery
obseruable
Time
or
other
occasion
,
their
religious
vse
;
briefly
,
&
in
such
a
manner
,
as
I
hope
euery
reasonable
capacity
may
thereby
vnderstand
,
our
Churches
discipline
in
that
poynt
,
to
be
farr
from
a
needles
,
popish
,
or
superstious
Tradition
.
Moreouer
,
that
I
might
not
trouble
any
mans
charity
or
deuotion
in
the
vse
of
these
Hymnes
,
I
was
as
watchful
,
as
possible
I
could
be
,
to
make
all
my
expressions
free
from
bitternesse
,
or
touches
of
those
controuersies
,
which
might
giue
offence
to
the
weake
members
of
our
Church
.
And
God
so
prosper
me
,
as
I
was
and
am
cleare
,
from
meaning
to
grieue
,
offend
,
or
discontent
the
soules
,
or
consciences
of
any
.
Thus
with
a
good
purpose
,
I
began
and
finished
those
Hymns
and
Songes
,
which
make
vp
the
Booke
,
called
the
HYMNES
and
SONGS
OF
THE
CHVRCH
.
So
named
,
not
for
that
I
would
haue
them
accounted
part
of
our
Lyturgie
(
as
I
haue
deliuered
to
his
Maiestie
in
my
Epistle
)
but
because
they
do
for
the
most
part
,
treate
of
such
particulers
▪
as
concerne
the
whole
Church
of
God
.
And
this
is
that
booke
▪
for
which
his
Maiestie
vouchsafed
mee
the
priuiledge
before
mentioned
,
and
which
he
pyously
&
gratiously
commaunded
to
bee
annexed
to
the
singing
Psalmes
,
that
it
might
be
the
more
generally
&
the
more
conueniently
divulg●…d
among
his
subiects
for
their
instruction
.
And
indeed
,
by
that
means
,
those
poore
people
(
whose
Pastors
suffer
them
or
cause
them
to
be
misinformed
concerning
that
poynt
)
shall
carry
about
with
them
in
their
most
vsesual
book
,
what
may
at
one
tyme
or
other
open
their
vnderstandinges
to
perceiue
their
errour
.
This
is
that
Booke
,
for
which
I
(
was
euer
worst
vsed
for
my
best
intentions
)
suffer
more
,
then
for
all
my
former
in
discretions
;
&
for
which
,
I
haue
receiued
those
afronts
▪
that
may
wel
be
ranked
among
my
greatest
iniuries
;
notwithstanding
it
had
besides
the
ordinary
allowance
of
Authority
▪
the
particular
approbation
,
and
commendation
both
of
the
King
himselfe
,
and
of
many
the
members
of
this
most
reuerend
Conuocation
.
Yea
,
this
is
that
Booke
,
for
which
the
Common
wealth
of
Stationers
(
●…
Tyrrany
vnheard
of
in
former
ages
)
desire
to
make
me
as
odious
▪
as
if
I
had
ympolyed
my
whole
study
to
the
oppression
of
this
weale
publike
,
or
to
the
subuertion
of
religion
and
for
which
they
haue
persued
me
with
such
violence
and
clamor
as
hath
seldome
or
neuer
been
exampled
in
any
cause
.
Heare
therefore
(
I
humbly
beseech
you
)
their
particuler
obiections
;
and
for
his
sake
(
who
hath
honoured
you
with
high
places
,
and
holy
callings
)
be
you
Iudges
betweene
mee
and
them
.
For
though
in
regard
of
my selfe
,
I
should
take
no
more
notice
of
their
malicious
wronges
,
then
the
Nightingale
in
a
Sommers
night
,
doth
of
the
barking
of
dogges
,
&
whooping
of
Owles
:
but
sing
on
without
distemper
,
to
the
contentment
of
myne
owne
soule
.
Yet
since
their
clamorous
noise
hinders
others
from
heareing
the
voice
of
the
Charmer
,
and
through
my
sides
,
wounds
the
credit
of
Authority
,
and
may
parhapps
hereafter
incourage
them
presumptuously
,
for
the
bringing
in
of
greater
inconueniences
:
I
desire
their
dealing
with
me
,
may
be
taken
notice
of
by
this
most
Reuerend
Assembly
.
To
which
end
,
I
haue
here
sett
downe
,
what
they
cry
out
,
to
the
disparagement
of
me
,
and
my
booke
,
instead
of
dispersing
it
abroad
according
to
his
Maiesties
royall
commaund
.
Some
giue
out
that
my
booke
containes
nothing
but
a
few
needles
Songs
:
which
I
composed
,
and
gott
priuiledged
by
Patent
,
meerely
for
my
priuate
benifit
,
to
the
oppression
of
the
Common-wealth
.
Some
discourage
those
that
come
to
buy
the
booke
:
other
whiles
denying
that
it
is
to
be
had
,
&
other
while
peremptorily
protesting
against
the
selling
of
it
,
or
disgracefully
telling
such
as
enquire
after
the
same
,
that
the
worke
is
Ridiculous
,
and
that
it
better
be●…itted
me
to
medle
with
my
poetry
,
then
to
be
●…ampering
with
diuinity
.
with
such
like
other
wordes
of
contempt
.
Other
some
there
be
,
who
dare
auerr
that
my
▪
Lords
Grace
of
Canterbury
,
with
many
of
the
Bishopps
,
and
best
Deuines
,
doe
much
dislike
and
oppose
the
saide
Hymnes
.
Others
againe
buze
in
the
peoples
eares
that
the
Hymnes
for
the
Obseruable
tymes
are
popish
,
and
tending
to
the
maintenance
of
superstition
.
And
some
there
be
among
them
,
who
(
in
such
terms
of
ribaldry
,
as
no
Stewes
can
goe
beyond
them
)
blasphemingly
affirme
,
that
the
CANTICLES
are
obscene
,
and
not
fitt
to
be
divulged
in
Song
,
or
Verse
.
Yea
,
many
other
obiections
they
make
,
and
cast
out
diuers
aspersions
,
aswell
vpon
the
Author
,
as
on
his
booke
,
to
bring
both
into
contempt
.
The
maliciousnes
,
and
superfluity
of
wickednes
,
appearing
in
these
their
euill
speakeinges
,
your
Reuerences
can
easily
perceiue
:
Neuerthelesse
,
forasmuch
as
there
lye
Padds
in
the
straw
,
which
the
best
iudgements
cannot
discerne
at
the
first
sight
.
And
seeing
I
haue
been
openly
traduced
,
as
vnbeseemingly
intruding
vpon
the
deuine
calling
,
and
stand
now
accused
as
one
that
hath
hatched
and
brought
forth
such
thinges
for
my
temporall
aduantage
,
which
are
offensiue
,
and
scandalous
to
the
Church
,
and
consciences
of
good
men
;
which
I
would
not
willingly
be
guilty
,
of
for
all
the
world
(
by
your
patience
)
I
do
hereby
giue
an
account
of
my
action
now
in
question
,
hopeing
that
it
shal
be
to
the
satisfying
of
this
reuerend
Assemblie
,
the
contentment
of
such
as
haue
vpon
misreport
been
offended
,
&
to
the
shame
of
myne
opposers
.
And
I
trust
also
it
shall
discouer
,
that
although
there
may
be
founde
indiscretions
,
or
ouersights
in
my
vndertaking
,
yet
I
haue
deserued
fairer
vsage
,
my
aduersaries
lesse
credit
,
and
my
studies
better
entertainement
then
heretofore
they
haue
found
.
To
keepe
my selfe
the
closer
to
that
which
shal
bee
pertinent
to
this
Apology
,
I
wil
make
these
particuler
obiections
my
Theames
,
which
I
haue
repeated
:
nor
will
I
bring
any
other
authorities
to
make
good
my
defence
,
then
the
true
relations
,
of
what
hath
ben
don
,
and
such
plaine
arguments
as
mine
owne
reason
shal
be
able
to
frame
.
For
,
if
this
discourse
come
to
the
veiw
of
your
Reuerences
only
,
you
wel
enough
know
,
what
the
Recordes
of
Antiquity
can
afford
to
these
purposes
.
And
if
it
happen
among
those
only
of
meane
capacity
such
playne
expressions
,
as
I
purpose
to
vse
,
will
acquire
most
credite
among
them
.
And
first
,
whereas
they
giue
out
,
that
my
Hymnes
are
needles
;
they
doe
not
only
thereby
contemne
,
and
slight
my
paynes
but
lay
an
imputation
of
vanity
vpon
the
wisedome
of
the
Holy
Ghost
also
.
For
a
greate
part
of
them
are
parcells
of
the
Canonicall
Scriptures
:
originally
Songe
.
And
,
to
say
any
fragment
thereof
,
were
needeles
,
is
in
effect
,
to
deminish
from
Gods
words
,
vpon
which
followes
a
heauie
curse
.
God
deserues
euery
day
to
be
praysed
of
vs
for
deliuering
his
Church
,
by
the
ouerthrow
of
Pharoah
in
the
redd
Sea
,
as
much
as
he
did
in
the
very
moment
of
their
deliuerance
.
And
the
song
of
Moses
then
vsed
,
doth
in
each
particuler
,
as
properly
concerne
euery
christian
Congregation
,
as
it
did
the
Iewes
themselues
vpon
that
occasion
.
For
,
Gods
mercy
shewed
to
v●…
in
our
baptisme
,
(
and
the
spirituall
ouerthrowe
of
the
deuill
,
pursuing
vs
with
an
host
of
sinnes
,
and
temptations
,
)
is
in
myne
opinion
more
effectually
exprest
to
a
spirituall
vnderstanding
,
by
apprehending
the
actions
and
circumstances
of
that
temporall
deliuerance
,
them
it
could
be
by
the
power
of
any
words
,
or
by
any
other
ordinary
means
;
except
by
contemplating
of
that
most
excellent
material
obiect
,
the
Sacrament
of
Baptisme
it selfe
,
of
which
the
other
was
but
a
type
.
In
like
manner
,
all
the
other
Canonicall
Hymnes
do
admyrablie
help
towards
Gods
euerlasting
mercies
,
and
for
illustrating
those
particuler
Misteries
of
our
christian
fayth
,
which
they
did
typically
and
prophetically
foreshew
.
Yea
,
they
are
part
of
the
propheticall
witnes
,
as
the
Hymnes
of
the
newe
Testament
are
patt
of
the
Euangelicall
witnes
,
of
our
interest
in
Christ
Iesus
.
And
verily
,
the
late
neglect
of
their
application
,
in
our
christian
mysteries
,
hath
not
onely
much
iniured
,
one
of
the
two
great
witnesses
of
our
saluation
:
but
giuen
occasion
also
,
that
many
vnsound
professors
haue
corrupted
them
;
euen
to
the
bringing
in
of
diuers
Iewish
and
Talmudicall
fancies
,
to
the
fearefull
distraction
of
weake
people
.
But
,
were
not
those
Hymnes
necessary
in
respect
of
the
variety
of
their
arguments
,
yet
the
variety
of
expression
,
were
somwhat
needful
,
although
the
matter
were
the
same
.
For
,
as
the
seuerall
dressings
of
one
sort
of
meate
,
maks
it
diuersly
agreeable
to
the
pallats
,
and
stomackes
of
men
:
so
the
various
manner
of
things
de●…uered
in
holy
Scripturs
,
makes
them
applicable
to
our
vnderstandings
;
and
what
in
one
kind
of
deliuery
seems
harsh
,
or
obscure
,
in
another
kind
is
acceptable
,
and
more
easily
apprehended
.
That
which
is
easie
to
you
,
is
hard
parhapps
to
me
:
and
what
may
be
thought
an
impropriety
to
some
great
iudgments
,
doth
many
times
most
properly
insinuate
the
speakers
meaning
vnto
them
of
weaker
capacityes
.
In
obseruing
the
seeming
differences
amonge
▪
Interpreters
in
their
translations
of
these
words
:
NASSECHV
BAR
,
(
part
of
the
last
verse
of
the
second
psalme
)
I
conceiued
thereby
,
that
the
profitable
vse
of
variety
,
was
very
apparant
.
For
,
the
translation
most
agreeable
to
the
original
Hebrew
renders
the
words
:
OSCVLEMINI
FILIVM
.
the
Septuagint
,
APPREHENDITE
DISCIPLINAM
and
Saint-Hierome
,
ADORATE
PVRE
:
which
beeing
all
orthodoxe
Interpretations
,
and
agreeable
both
to
the
scope
of
the
Psalme
,
and
that
which
the
wordes
originally
beare
,
and
all
standing
well
together
also
with
the
Analogie
of
fayth
:
this
variety
made
me
conceiue
in
my
meditations
therevpon
,
that
the
holy
ghost
had
deliuered
his
meaning
in
these
triple
Equivokes
,
that
they
might
the
more
properly
▪
bee
accomodated
to
the
seuerall
States
,
and
ages
of
his
Church
.
For
(
pardon
me
if
I
erre
)
me
thought
in
saying
,
OSCVLEMINI
FILIVM
(
which
was
according
to
the
genuin
,
&
most
common
understanding
of
the
original
words
among
the
Hebrewes
)
I
apprehended
that
the
Holy
●…host
exhorted
his
Church
among
the
Iewes
to
homage
and
worshipp
that
Sonne
of
God
,
whoe
was
diuers
wais
made
māifest
vnto
them
to
be
their
true
King
.
And
APPREHENDITE
DISCIPLINAM
,
(
being
according
to
that
Translation
,
which
I
am
perswaded
God
himselfe
extraordinarily
prouided
to
reueale
his
truth
by
vnto
the
Heathen
)
I
conceiued
that
the
Holy
Ghost
perswaded
his
Church
among
the
Gentiles
.
(
who
yet
knew
not
Christ
their
Kinge
)
to
imbrace
the
knowledge
of
him
.
And
ADORATE
PVRE
(
beeing
the
first
trans●…ation
that
in
latine
the
Church
publikly
receiued
,
and
about
that
tyme
the
true
worship
of
Iesus
Christ
begining
to
be
adulterated
)
my
mynd
gaue
me
(
that
psalme
being
a
manifest
prophecie
concerning
the
kingedome
of
Christ
to
the
worlds
end
)
it
might
be
,
that
God
did
by
that
interpretation
perswad
those
peruerters
of
his
Truth
to
repentance
,
who
should
disturbe
the
peace
and
quiet
of
his
kingdome
in
these
later
tymes
.
But
I
stand
not
so
thereupon
as
if
I
could
not
submitt
to
better
iudgments
:
Sure
I
am
this
meditation
is
no
way
repugnant
to
the
Catholike
verity
;
and
howsoeuer
it
shal
be
approoued
,
it
serues
wel
enough
to
my
purpose
for
demonstratinge
,
that
the
variety
,
or
different
expressions
of
sacred
things
,
are
not
needles
,
but
do
afford
aduantage
vnto
those
of
meane
capacityes
,
if
they
meditate
vpon
them
with
reuerence
and
humility
.
If
it
be
but
to
awaken
our
dullnes
,
and
take
away
our
wearisomenesse
in
holy
duties
,
variety
is
needful
.
For
,
flesh
and
bloud
(
as
we
finde
by
daily
experience
)
loaths
those
things
,
wherwithal
they
are
naturally
best
plesed
,
if
they
be
to
frequent
:
how
much
more
tedious
then
will
those
things
be
vnto
vs
,
which
are
perpetually
iterated
in
the
same
words
,
being
naturally
vnpleasing
to
a
carnall
eare
?
Since
god
in
mercie
hath
prouided
and
permitted
vs
meanes
to
assist
our
weaknesses
,
let
not
such
as
are
strong
enough
to
be
without
them
,
condemne
the
vse
of
such
helpes
in
those
,
whoe
beeing
not
so
able
,
must
haue
their
affections
weaned
by
degrees
from
their
childish
inclynations
.
We
see
the
Flesh
and
the
Deuill
,
hauing
for
their
seruice
thousands
of
vaine
Songes
,
and
prophane
ballads
stored
vp
in
the
Stationers
warhouses
,
haue
neuerthelesse
,
many
Muses
perpetually
ymployed
for
the
composing
of
new
Straynes
;
And
that
many
hundred
pounds
are
yearely
consumed
vpon
them
,
to
the
inriching
of
those
marchants
;
to
the
shame
of
our
profession
,
to
the
corruption
of
youth
,
and
to
the
building
vp
of
the
kingdome
of
sinne
,
and
Satan
:
as
it
is
well
knowne
,
and
obserued
by
many
of
good
note
in
this
reuerend
assembly
.
Yet
there
haueing
been
for
diuers
ages
together
,
but
so
many
Hymnes
composed
,
and
published
,
as
make
in
some
impressions
not
aboue
two
sheets
and
a
halfe
of
paper
(
for
the
reuerence
and
practice
of
Deuotion
vnto
the
honour
of
god
)
they
are
censured
impertinent
;
malitiously
exclaymed
on
;
violentely
opposed
;
and
the
Author
of
them
seeking
for
the
needefull
hyre
of
his
labour
,
(
but
his
due
,
and
what
strangers
should
haue
been
suffered
to
make
thereof
)
is
publikely
accused
as
a
man
coueteously
hunting
after
the
world
,
and
an
iniurious
oppressor
of
the
common-wealth
.
Oh
god
!
how
partiall
are
all
men
bewitched
with
selfe-loue
,
in
the
prosecution
of
their
base
ends
!
and
how
vncharitable
in
their
censunes
!
For
the
Stationers
haue
not
onely
labored
to
depriue
me
of
the
benefit
due
to
my
labours
,
but
also
to
make
me
appeare
without
Christianity
in
my
intentions
▪
by
affirming
that
I
sought
myne
owne
benyfit
onely
,
in
composing
my
booke
of
Hymns
,
&
in
publishing
it
according
to
the
kinges
commaund
.
My
Poem●…
last
deuulged
was
sayd
to
haue
been
written
in
myne
own
prayse
▪
&
the
Hymnes
for
my
priuate
profit
;
I
wonder
to
what
purpose
,
the
next
booke
I
write
shal
be
composed
.
Verily
,
if
I
be
not
altogether
forgetful
of
myne
owne
thoughtes
,
o●…
too
apt
to
beleeue
ouerwell
of
my selfe
(
as
parhaps
I
am
)
my
principall
ayme
was
the
glory
of
God
in
both
those
vndertakinges
.
Neuerthelesse
,
truth
is
,
I
am
so
inclyned
to
the
corruptions
of
other
men
,
that
although
I
did
what
I
was
able
,
yet
was
I
not
altogether
soe
free
from
outward
hopes
(
as
I
ought
to
haue
been
)
in
those
works
.
My
weake
fortunes
,
my
troubles
,
and
the
chargablenesse
of
a
studie
that
bringes
with
it
no
outward
supplie
,
put
me
vnto
a
kinde
of
necessity
to
cast
my
thoughts
a
side
vnto
wo●…ldly
respects
but
I
haue
siu●…e
been
sory
for
it
vpon
better
consideration
.
And
as
a
iust
reward
for
my
too
earnest
lookeing
after
vaine
ho●…
,
I
doe
now
accept
of
my
present
trouble
,
that
outwardly
is
like
to
impouerish
me
.
And
the
tyme
thereof
,
drawes
me
the
more
heedfully
to
consider
it
,
being
iust
about
that
season
,
wherein
I
expected
to
reape
some
contentment
in
the
fruition
of
my
labors
and
expences
.
God
graunt
this
experience
may
inrich
me
another
way
,
and
settle
my
hopes
vpon
more
certaine
thinges
and
that
those
who
accuse
mee
of
this
imperfection
,
may
examine
their
owne
heartes
,
and
(
if
they
finde
them
guilty
of
the
like
infirmity
)
learne
by
myne
example
to
confesse
their
errour
.
And
my
prayer
shal
be
,
that
we
both
may
more
directly
seeke
gods
glory
in
our
vndertakings
.
But
why
should
I
be
the
man
more
accused
,
the●…
all
others
,
for
seekeing
after
the
iust
hyre
of
my
labours
?
am
I
the
only
One
guilty
of
studyinge
myne
owne
profit●…
,
in
the
course
of
my
paynefull
endeuours
for
religious
ende
?
I
would
to
god
I
were
,
and
that
no
man
liuing
saue
I
,
were
so
wicked
,
as
to
make
his
owne
glory
,
and
inriching
,
the
end
and
scope
of
his
christian
diligence
.
For
doubtles
,
such
an
vniuersall
pietie
,
would
be
a
powerfull
meanes
of
drawing
me
to
repentance
.
But
I
beleeue
,
there
be
so
fewe
,
who
can
with
the
Apostle
cleare
himselfe
herein
,
that
if
none
might
be
permitted
to
throwe
at
me
the
stone
of
reproofe
,
but
only
they
who
are
free
from
this
weaknes
,
I
may
walke
from
Saint
Michaels
Mount
in
Cornwal
to
Douer●…
&
from
thence
euen
through
our
mitropolitan
Churches
,
to
the
farthest
Northeren
Isles
without
touch
of
exception
.
And
whereas
they
obiect
I
haue
compassed
a
priveledge
to
the
publike
greeuance
;
your
Reuerences
shal
ceiue
how
innocent
I
am
from
giuing
cause
of
such
an
imputation
,
if
you
please
to
consider
the
circumstances
of
his
Maiesties
Grant
with
his
pyous
intention
,
and
my
carriage
in
the
procuring
and
execution
of
it
.
For
,
I
did
not
,
as
some
of
the
Stationers
haue
done
,
in
the
name
of
many
,
and
by
pretending
the
reliefe
of
the
poore
(
whome
they
may
be
prooued
therby
to
oppresse
)
monopolize
the
principall
bookes
of
Sale
within
this
Realme
(
euen
those
wherein
the
whole
commonwealth
haue
a
inst
interest
)
which
is
really
one
of
those
Monopo●…es
that
our
State
abhores
.
But
hauing
composed
a
new
Booke
,
which
no
man
could
claime
a
share
in
,
while
it
remayned
myne
owne
,
and
in
mine
owne
power
to
make
publike
or
no
;
&
proposing
the
same
to
his
Maiestie
,
briefly
and
plainely
,
without
pretence
of
any
by-respect
)
I
obtayned
a
free
and
gratious
graunt
to
make
such
benifit
thereof
as
vsually
heretofore
in
like
cases
,
his
Maiestie
hath
vouchsafed
vnto
others
:
yea
such
as
the
Stationers
would
haue
made
of
it
without
a
priueledge
if
so
be
I
had
left
it
in
their
power
.
Nor
can
any
disaduantage
come
to
the
Common-wealth
thereby
,
seeing
the
price
is
lymited
to
be
such
as
▪
themselues
sell
bookes
for
,
like
chargeable
of
the
same
kind
.
Besides
,
no
mans
trade
or
ymployment
,
is
therby
vsurped
vpon
,
hindred
,
or
taken
away
:
but
many
are
rather
sett
on
worke
in
seuerall
professions
,
more
then
before
.
Insomuch
that
there
can
be
no
publike
grieuance
truely
named
or
probably
pretended
which
that
priuiledge
is
cause
of
:
except
it
bee
a
griefe
to
some
fewe
Idle
drones
,
to
behould
the
laborious
lyving
vpon
the
sweate
of
their
owne
browes
.
Indeed
The
Booke-sellers
do
peremptorily
challeng
an
interest
in
euery
mans
labour
of
this
kind
;
and
a
worshipfull
Lawyer
was
lately
pleased
on
their
behalfe
to
say
,
that
the
benifite
arisinge
from
the
sale
of
bookes
,
was
their
ancient
,
and
lawfull
birthright
.
But
if
his
Masterships
Iudgement
be
noe
better
in
other
cases
,
I
hope
to
blesse
my selfe
from
his
opinions
.
For
vnlesse
he
can
proue
,
the
Author
hath
sould
them
his
birth-right
(
as
often
he
doth
,
for
lesse
then
a
messe
of
pottage
)
he
being
the
elder
brother
,
the
right
first
(
by
his
owne
lawe
that
he
professes
)
falleth
vnto
him
.
And
there
are
other
heires
(
but
of
a
collaterall
lyne
)
the
Printer
,
and
Booke-binder
that
clayme
iust
title
beefore
the
booke-seller
:
at
least-wise
may
in
Gauilekind
be
coheires
with
him
;
yea
indeed
,
the
meanest
of
them
doubly
deserues
the
better
right
.
But
it
may
bee
our
learned
Counseller
,
was
a
kentish
man
,
where
in
some
place
,
the
yongest
brother
inherites
by
custome
of
Borough
English
,
and
so
thought
perhapps
that
the
like
teneur
might
be
peculier
vnto
the
Booke-sellers
trade
.
Therefore
as
I
am
willing
,
his
ignorance
should
excuse
him
,
so
I
hope
,
all
Authors
shal
be
excused
,
and
and
vnblame
worthy
,
if
hauing
their
proper
rightes
incroched
vpon
,
they
seeke
repossession
by
the
royall
power
.
To
that
purpose
is
my
priueledge
;
which
the
Sationers
haue
not
onely
called
in
question
before
the
high
Court
of
Parlament
(
whose
Censure
I
shall
bee
ready
to
abide
with
good
contentment
)
but
by
many
clamors
,
and
by
a
multytud
of
papers
in
print
also
,
scandalized
the
Kinges
Grauntas
,
an
oppression
;
and
cast
vpon
me
the
vniust
imputation
of
a
base
Monopolist
:
wheras
I
doubt
not
but
I
shal
be
able
to
proue
that
his
Maiestie
hath
vouchsafed
me
nothing
,
but
what
was
,
IVS
REGALE
,
and
in
his
Lawfull
power
to
conferr
;
and
that
I
enioy
nothing
by
vertue
of
the
Priueledge
he
graunted
me
,
but
what
I
am
honestly
capable
to
receiue
.
For
,
yf
his
Maiestie
hath
not
a
legall
power
to
confirme
vnto
me
that
which
is
naturally
myne
own
,
By
what
right
then
,
doe
they
and
others
enioy
priueledges
for
those
books
wherein
euery
man
hath
as
good
property
as
they
▪
Or
if
his
Maiesty
hath
not
Authority
to
commaund
the
addition
of
a
fewe
leaues
(
for
Gods
glory
,
and
the
peoples
edification
)
to
such
a
booke
,
as
hath
allowance
from
the
Prerogatiue
Royall
onely
;
Then
,
either
the
Stationers
are
very
presumptious
,
in
anexing
the
singing
Psalmes
and
Robert
Wisdomes
Songs
to
the
Bible
and
booke
of
Common
prayer
,
at
their
owne
pleasures
,
and
for
their
owne
profit
:
Or
els
their
Prerogatiue
is
more
absolute
then
the
Kings
.
For
,
the
Stationers
doe
not
onely
reape
the
Benefit
of
diuers
books
by
vertue
of
his
Maiesties
Graunts
,
in
such
wise
as
the
same
is
vouchsafed
vnto
me
,
but
in
a
farr
larger
manner
,
and
(
acording
as
they
execut
them
)
to
the
publkie
iniury
many
waies
.
Yea
,
by
the
lawes
and
Orders
of
their
Corporation
,
they
can
and
do
setle
vpon
the
particuler
members
thereof
,
a
prpetuall
interest
in
such
Bookes
as
are
Registred
by
them
at
their
Hall
,
in
their
seueral
Names
:
and
are
secured
in
taking
the
ful
benefit
of
those
books
,
better
then
any
Author
can
be
by
vertue
of
the
Kings
Grant
,
notwithstanding
their
first
Coppies
were
purloyned
from
the
true
owner
,
or
imprinted
without
his
leaue
.
Moreouer
,
they
annexe
Additions
to
bookes
formerly
imprinted
,
and
increase
the
pryses
of
them
accordingly
,
though
the
matter
be
altogither
impertinent
.
And
yet
if
the
King
do
but
conferr
vpon
some
Author
the
sole
printing
of
a
tenth
part
of
his
owne
labours
,
(
which
he
might
stil
haue
reserued
in
his
owne
power
)
Or
but
please
(
for
the
Reuerence
and
practise
of
deuotion
)
to
commaund
the
addition
of
a
fewe
leaues
to
some
booke
authorized
by
the
State
onely
:
they
immediately
breake
out
into
an
vproare
,
as
if
the
Kinge
had
dealt
vniustly
with
them
;
As
if
the
Author
had
committed
Sacriledge
:
and
as
if
the
Common-wealth
had
beene
ready
to
sinke
vnder
the
weight
of
that
burthen
.
Good
God!
how
many
dung-botes
full
of
fruitles
Volumnes
doe
they
yearely
foyst
vpon
his
Maiesties
subiectes
,
by
lying
Titles
,
insinuations
,
and
disparaging
of
more
profitable
Books
!
how
many
hundred
reames
of
foolish
prophane
and
sensles
Ballads
do
they
quarterly
disperse
abroade
?
And
howe
many
thousande
poundes
doe
they
yearely
picke
out
of
the
purses
of
ignorant
people
,
who
refer
the
Choyce
of
their
books
to
the
discreations
and
honesties
of
these
men
!
by
that
meanes
ridding
their
warehouses
from
heapes
of
trasla
and
refuse
,
which
might
els
haue
layne
by
the
walles
till
the
Ratts
had
eaten
it
?
how
vnconscionably
is
the
Subiect
by
these
vsages
robbed
both
of
his
mony
and
tyme
?
how
often
in
stead
of
being
bettered
,
are
their
manners
corrupted
and
their
affections
drawne
away
by
lewd
and
wanton
Poemes
?
how
vnchristianly
is
their
loyalty
somtyme
shaken
by
seditious
Pamphlets
?
Yea
,
how
dangerously
is
their
faith
&
religion
peruerted
by
those
many
hereticall
and
schismaticall
Treatises
,
which
they
from
tyme
to
time
secretly
or
openly
disperse
through
his
Maiesties
Dominyons
.
How
vnfortunate
am
I
(
as
some
thinke
)
that
haueing
performed
a
good
worke
;
doe
neuertheles
heare
it
exclaimed
vpon
as
a
friuelous
labour
,
and
stand
accused
for
oppressing
the
people
(
because
a
fewe
Hymnes
contayning
the
prayses
of
God
are
commaunded
to
bee
divulged
the
most
conuenient
way
)
whilst
such
abuses
as
these
afore
mentioned
,
and
many
of
a
higher
nature
,
may
be
winked
at
in
my
Accusers
:
Yet
,
I
say
rather
,
how
happy
am
I
&
how
much
bound
to
praise
Gods
mercie
,
who
couers
the
multitudes
of
my
transgressions
and
still
bringes
me
into
publike
question
for
such
Actions
onely
,
as
shall
vpon
Tryall
become
myne
honor
,
and
to
the
shame
of
my
Traducers
.
For
,
I
am
confident
that
I
shal
in
due
time
be
deliuered
from
that
,
and
from
all
other
scandalous
imputations
which
the
world
hath
layd
to
my
charg
.
And
therefore
whether
it
be
now
or
hereafter
,
I
am
indifferent
;
and
place
such
assurance
in
gods
loue
that
I
can
stay
his
leasure
.
I
procured
the
Kinges
Graunt
(
being
the
possibility
of
a
temporall
blessing
)
by
moouing
for
it
,
where
I
ought
,
and
as
I
ought
to
seeke
the
same
,
without
entreating
any
mans
furtherance
;
and
if
it
be
not
in
euery
perticuler
iust
and
conuenient
,
that
I
should
enioy
the
same
;
yt
shall
goe
,
and
I
wil
venture
an
vtter
vndoeing
rather
then
make
vse
of
any
mans
friendship
to
detain
it
.
For
,
God
(
who
hath
hitherro
prouided
for
me
in
such
a
manner
as
best
befitted
both
my
temporall
and
spirituall
Condition
)
will
I
knowe
,
continue
his
prouident
care
of
me
;
while
I
can
haue
grace
to
be
thankfull
,
and
retayne
the
resolution
to
doe
my
lawfull
endeauour
.
Howsoeuer
(
let
the
worlde
conceit
of
mee
as
it
pleaseth
)
I
scorne
to
enioy
my
lyfe
,
much
more
any
priueledge
to
the
common
preiudice
:
and
am
able
to
demonstrate
(
as
shall
hereafter
appeare
)
that
my
booke
and
the
Kinges
Graunt
haue
beene
malitiously
traduced
without
cause
.
Yet
,
the
Stationers
haue
not
only
scandalized
the
sayde
graunt
vniustly
,
and
layde
the
imputation
of
impertinencie
to
the
Booke
of
Hymnes
without
cause
;
but
feareing
(
as
it
seems
)
lest
their
publication
would
discōuer
their
false
dealing
,
and
gayne
me
and
my
labour
some
good
approbation
in
spight
of
their
mallice
;
They
haue
(
as
I
sayd
before
)
practised
also
,
or
rather
conspired
,
as
much
as
in
them
lyes
,
to
hinder
the
lawful
sale
of
my
Booke
.
For
,
they
prouide
them
not
in
their
shoppes
as
they
are
commaunded
by
Authority
,
nor
furnish
themselues
with
those
as
with
other
books
,
notwithstanding
they
may
take
them
vpon
trust
,
and
make
profitt
of
them
before
payment
is
required
at
their
hands
,
being
content
somewhat
to
hinder
themselues
that
they
may
disaduantage
me
.
And
to
excuse
this
iniury
they
giue
out
,
contrary
to
their
owne
knowledges
,
that
if
they
take
my
bookes
from
me
,
none
will
fetch
them
out
of
their
handes
,
which
they
falsly
pretend
,
meerely
to
dispariage
that
which
I
hope
they
shall
neuer
be
able
to
bring
out
of
credit
,
tyl
they
haue
lost
their
owne
.
For
,
they
are
daily
so
much
enquired
after
,
that
had
the
Booke-sellers
preferred
them
to
sale
as
they
would
haue
done
if
the
coppie
had
been
their
owne
,
twenty
thousand
might
haue
been
dispersed
,
long
ere
this
tyme
.
Yea
if
they
had
either
any
loyal
respect
to
the
Kings
pyous
commaund
;
or
loue
to
the
practise
of
Deuotion
,
or
but
that
humanity
which
is
to
be
found
among
Infidells
;
they
might
haue
deulged
a
hundred
in
place
of
euery
ten●…
which
are
yet
dispersed
.
For
,
though
fewe
knowe
where
to
get
the
sayd
Hymnes
,
because
they
are
seldome
to
be
had
amonge
the
Booke-sellers
;
yet
thousandes
of
them
haue
beene
bought
vp
by
gentlemen
and
others
,
whoe
(
hauing
enquired
out
,
with
much
difficulty
,
where
to
finde
them
)
report
to
mee
howe
much
I
am
abused
amonge
the
Stationers
,
and
how
hardly
they
cann
forbeare
from
vsing
them
vnciuilly
that
come
to
aske
for
my
Booke
:
with
diuers
other
particular
Discourtesies
.
But
because
those
vsages
doe
demonstrate
their
owne
euill
disposition
rather
then
disparage
the
said
Booke
;
I
wil
omitt
to
perticularize
those
many
discourtesies
which
I
am
that
way
offered
,
and
proceed
to
answere
such
other
obiections
as
they
and
their
abetters
haue
framed
to
bring
both
my
Hymnes
and
me
,
into
contempt
.
And
first
,
they
obiect
(
forsooth
)
that
they
are
not
worthy
to
be
annexed
with
their
Psalmes
in
meeter
,
in
respect
of
that
insufficiency
which
they
haue
discouered
in
my
expressions
.
For
,
so
harsh
and
improper
do
my
lynes
appeare
to
these
iuditious
censurers
,
and
their
chaplins
;
that
some
compare
them
to
DOD
the
fillkemans
late
ridiculous
translation
of
the
Psalmes
,
which
was
by
authority
worthily
condemned
to
the
fire
.
Some
tearme
them
in
scorne
▪
WITHERS
SONNETS
;
and
some
,
among
them
,
the
better
to
expresse
what
opinion
they
haue
of
their
pious
vse
,
are
pleased
to
promise
that
they
wil
procure
the
●…aring
Ballett
singer
with
one
legg
,
to
sing
and
self
them
about
the
Citie
▪
which
base
speeches
proceeding
from
those
skoffing
Is●…alites
,
I
could
well
enough
brooke
in
respect
of
mine
owne
person
▪
o●…
me●…t
▪
For
,
there
is
soe
much
euill
,
euen
in
the
best
of
my
actions
,
that
contempt
is
the
fayrest
reward
,
which
they
can
iustly
challenge
:
Yet
,
when
I
call
to
minde
with
what
Christian
intentions
I
was
emploie●…
〈◊〉
those
Hymnes
,
and
howe
many
howers
at
●…ight
I
spent
about
them
,
whilst
,
it
may
be
▪
my
Traducers
,
were
either
sleeping
out
their
ty●…
,
o●…
〈◊〉
employed
▪
when
I
consider
also
how●…
many
〈◊〉
&
religious
men
haue
approoued
them
,
&
how
much
their
pious
vse
might
further
the
reuerence
and
practise
of
Deuotion
to
the
prayse
of
God
;
it
greeues
me
that
there
should
bee
in
this
nation
any
so
wicked
as
to
oppose
so
Christian
a
worke
,
to
so
friuelous
an
end
.
But
,
when
I
remember
,
by
whome
,
and
by
what
Authority
that
booke
was
allowed
,
and
commaunded
to
be
made
publik
;
and
withall
,
what
mistery
of
iniquity
it
is
that
hath
conspired
against
the
same
;
me
thinkes
it
is
an
Iniurie
not
to
be
tollerated
▪
Is
it
reason
,
they
who
liue
by
bookes
,
should
bee
permitted
to
abuse
the
Authors
of
their
liuelyhood
?
Or
is
it
seemely
that
those
whoe
(
as
I
sayd
before
)
are
but
the
pedlers
of
books
,
should
become
their
censurers
;
and
by
consequent
,
both
the
censurers
and
deprauers
of
that
Authority
which
allowed
them
?
If
this
be
tollerated
,
the
fayrest
draughts
of
Apelles
,
shal
be
daily
subiect
to
the
foolish
critiscismes
of
those
arrogant
coblers
;
and
the
State
shall
not
be
able
●…re
long
to
publish
any
thing
,
but
what
they
haue
a
fancie
to
approoue
.
For
,
to
this
passe
it
is
already
come
,
that
whatsoeuer
the
State
dislykes
shal
be
imprinted
and
devulged
by
them
(
though
both
absurd
and
scandalous
)
with
twice
more
seriousnes
,
then
any
booke
lawfully
commaunded
:
but
,
let
it
tend
to
schisme
▪
and
they
will
disperse
more
vnder-hand
in
one
weeke
,
then
the
Royall
Authority
shal
be
able
to
divulge
in
a
yeare
,
toward
the
setling
of
vnity
in
the
Church
.
I
know
not
what
it
is
which
should
make
my
booke
of
Hymnes
appeare
soe
ridiculus
vnto
the●…
▪
or
so
vnworthy
to
be
annexed
to
the
English
Psalm-book
,
as
they
pretend
.
In
respect
of
the
matter
it
cannot
iustly
be
excepted
against
▪
for
,
a
great
part
therof
,
is
canonicall
Scripture
;
and
the
rest
also
,
is
both
agreeable
therunto
in
euery
perticuler
,
and
consonant
to
the
most
approoued
Discipline
of
the
Church
of
England
.
Soe
that
(
how
sque●…ishly
soeuer
some
of
their
stomackes
brooke
it
)
they
being
allowed
by
Authority
,
are
as
fitt
,
I
trust
,
to
keepe
company
▪
with
Dauids
Psalmes
,
as
Robert
Wisdomes
TVRK●…
and
POPE
;
and
those
other
apocryphall
Songs
and
praiers
,
which
,
the
stationers
add
to
the
Psalmebooke
for
their
more
aduantage
:
Sure
I
am
,
that
if
their
additions
shal
be
allowed
of
by
the
most
voices
,
yet
mine
shal
be
approoued
of
before
those
,
by
the
best
Iudgments
.
Now
,
as
for
the
manner
of
expression
which
I
haue
vsed
,
I
hope
it
is
such
as
no
iust
exception
cann
be
taken
therunto
;
seeing
I
haue
(
aswel
in
that
which
is
of
my
owne
Inuention
,
as
in
the
Translations
)
vsed
that
simplicity
of
speech
which
(
best
)
becommeth
the
subiect
,
without
affectation
to
those
poetical
phrases
and
fancies
,
which
(
being
commendable
in
other
things
)
would
haue
obscured
the
maiesty
of
those
inventions
.
To
this
I
had
so
much
regard
(
especially
in
my
translations
of
the
Canonicall
Hymnes
)
that
,
if
I
mistake
not
,
I
haue
as
naturally
,
and
as
playuely
exprest
the
sence
of
them
,
as
most
prose
Translations
haue
done
.
And
if
those
indifferent
men
,
who
know
the
Poesy
and
power
of
the
English
tongue
may
be
my
Iudges
,
they
will
censure
my
expressions
to
bee
such
,
as
shall
neither
be
obscure
to
the
meanest
capacityes
,
nor
contemptible
to
the
best
Iudgments
,
but
(
obseruing
a
middle
way
)
best
becomming
that
purpose
,
for
which
they
were
intended
.
I
did
not
leape
on
a
suddaine
,
or
irreuerently
into
this
employment
▪
but
,
haueing
consumed
almost
the
yeares
of
an
Apprentishipp
,
in
studies
of
this
kinde
,
I
entred
therinto
conscionably
&
in
the
feare
of
God
:
nor
haue
I
proceeded
without
his
assistance
,
as
the
difficulties
and
discouragments
which
I
haue
passed
through
,
do
witnes
vnto
me
.
For
,
if
it
be
well
weighed
,
how
full
of
short
sentences
,
and
suddaine
breakings
off
,
those
scriptures
are
;
how
frequently
,
these
Particles
,
FOR
,
BVT
,
&
such
lik
,
(
which
are
graceful
in
the
Originall
Text
)
will
seeme
to
obscure
the
dependancy
of
Sense
,
in
the
English
phrase
,
if
the
power
of
their
signification
be
not
heedfully
obserued
in
those
places
:
How
ha●…sh
the
musicke
will
be
,
if
the
chiefe
Pauses
be
not
▪
carefully
reduced
vnto
the
same
place
in
the
lyne
throughout
the
whole
Hymne
,
which
they
haue
in
the
first
Stanza
;
how
many
differences
must
be
obserued
betweene
Lyricke-verse
and
that
which
is
composed
for
reading
only
:
Howe
the
Translater
is
tyed
,
not
to
make
choise
of
those
fashion
Stanzaes
which
are
easiest
,
to
expres
the
matter
in
,
but
to
keep
that
with
which
he
first
began
:
how
he
is
bound
,
not
only
to
the
sence
(
according
to
the
liberty
vsed
in
other
Translationes
)
but
to
the
very
words
,
or
words
of
the
same
power
with
those
vsed
in
our
allowed
Interpretations
:
Lastly
,
how
prec●…se
he
must
be
,
when
he
is
forced
to
expresse
any
sentence
by
circumlocution
,
to
labor
stil
to
retayne
a
relish
of
the
holy
phrase
in
his
expressions
:
I
say
,
if
all
these
circumstances
be
well
considered
,
(
and
how
difficult
they
make
it
to
close
vp
euery
Stanza
with
a
period
,
or
some
such
point
that
the
voice
may
decently
pause
there
)
I
am
parswaded
a
worke
of
this
nature
coulde
not
haue
ben
persisted
in
,
to
this
conclusion
,
by
a
man
haueing
somany
weaknesses
,
and
discouragments
as
I
haue
had
;
vnlesse
the
Almighty
had
beene
with
mee
.
Nor
can
I
beleeue
that
the
deuill
would
haue
raysed
vp
soe
many
malitiously
to
oppose
the
same
,
if
it
had
not
tended
to
Gods
honor
.
But
sure
,
no
man
will
grudge
the
annexing
of
the
Booke
of
Hymnes
to
our
metricall
Psalmes
now
vsed
,
in
regard
of
any
faultinesse
in
their
expression
,
yf
they
consider
the
meannesse
of
that
Translation
.
For
,
though
some
(
of
no
meane
degree
)
are
very
violent
for
the
mayntenance
and
continuance
of
their
olde
Version
,
pleading
(
as
the
papists
do
for
many
of
their
trumperyes
)
a
long
prescription
,
in
steed
of
better
argumentes
:
yet
I
know
it
to
be
soe
much
to
blame
,
that
no
man
of
vnderstanding
can
sing
many
of
those
Psalmes
,
but
with
trouble
to
his
deuotion
.
And
I
dare
vndertake
to
demonstrate
,
that
they
are
not
onely
full
of
absurdityes
,
s●…oeloscismes
,
improprietyes
,
non-sence
,
and
impertinent
circumlocutions
(
to
more
then
twice
the
length
of
their
originalles
in
some
places
)
but
that
there
are
in
them
many
expressions
also
▪
●…uite
beside
if
not
quite
contrary
,
to
the
meaning
of
the
Text.
Which
I
would
not
thus
openly
haue
declared
,
but
that
euen
schoole
boys
perceiue
it
,
though
some
(
that
would
be
thought
wiser
)
do
ignorantly
or
wilfully
,
protest
against
an
alteration
of
our
singing
Psalmes
.
Excuse
me
I
beseech
you
,
if
I
seeme
a
litle
too
playne
in
discouering
the
faultines
of
that
wherof
so
many
are
ouerweening
:
for
,
I
doe
it
not
to
disparage
the
pious
endeauours
of
those
whoe
tooke
paynes
in
that
Translation
;
but
rather
,
commending
their
laborious
and
Christian
intention
,
do
acknowledg
,
that
(
considering
the
tymes
they
liued
in
,
and
of
what
quallity
they
were
)
they
made
soe
worthye
an
attempt
;
as
may
iustly
shame
vs
whoe
came
after
,
to
see
it
no
better
seconded
during
all
the
flourishing
tymes
which
haue
followed
their
troublesome
Age
:
especially
,
seeing
howe
curiously
our
language
and
expressiones
are
refined
in
our
triuiall
Discourses
.
This
hath
giuen
the
papist
,
the
Atheist
and
the
Libertyne
occasion
to
skoffe
at
our
christian
exercises
,
and
troubles
the
deuotion
of
many
a
religious
man
,
who
being
desirous
to
sing
with
his
vnderstanding
in
the
congregations
,
doth
often
(
before
he
is
aware
)
loose
the
sence
of
the
Prophet
:
yea
and
sometymes
fall
vpon
direct
nonsence
,
among
those
many
impertynent
circumlocutions
,
and
independancies
which
he
is
(
for
Rymes
sake
)
compelled
to
wander
through
in
that
Translation
.
Neuerthelesse
,
some
I
knowe
will
be
obstinate
in
defence
of
their
oulde
Meeter
▪
and
I
shall
seeme
to
them
,
as
one
that
had
presumpteously
layd
an
imputation
vpon
our
Church
,
and
vnreuerently
taxed
what
her
Authority
had
commaunded
;
which
,
I
thanke
God
,
I
am
not
guiltye
of
.
For
,
I
well
enough
knowe
(
and
your
Reuerences
can
witnesse
it
)
that
those
metrical
Psalmes
were
neuer
commaunded
to
bee
vsed
in
Diuine
seruice
,
or
in
our
publike
congregations
,
by
any
Canon
or
Ecclesiastical
constitution
,
though
many
of
the
vulger
be
of
that
opinion
:
But
(
whatsoeuer
the
stationers
do
in
their
Tytle
page
pretend
to
that
purpose
)
they
being
first
allowed
for
priuate
deuotion
only
,
●…ept
into
publik
vse
,
by
toleration
rather
than
commaund
.
Yea
,
custome
hath
beene
hitherto
their
cheife
Authority
:
and
therefore
wee
may
not
onely
lay
open
their
defects
to
a
good
purpose
(
without
iust
blame
to
our selues
or
scandal
to
the
Church
)
but
I
hope
chang
them
also
without
offence
,
when
a
better
translation
shal
come
to
light
.
In
the
meane
time
there
will
be
no
reason
,
I
am
sure
,
why
those
shoulde
condemne
my
expressiones
while
they
approoue
those
measures
we
haue
hitherto
made
vse
of
,
in
our
Devotions
.
But
,
lest
the
worke
should
bee
able
to
iustifie
it selfe
,
in
spight
of
their
detraction
,
my
Aduersarys
do
picke
personall
quarrells
also
:
alleaging
that
I
haue
vndecently
intruded
vpon
the
Diuine
calling
;
and
that
my
performances
being
but
the
fruites
of
a
priuate
spirit
are
therfore
vayne
&
vnwarrantable
.
Yea
(
yf
we
may
beleeue
the
stationers
)
many
zealous
Ministers
haue
taxed
me
for
medling
with
a
worke
of
that
nature
,
affyrming
that
it
was
a
taske
fitter
for
a
Diuine
then
for
me
:
and
so
bitterly
haue
many
of
them
(
as
I
heare
)
censured
me
for
it
,
in
their
priuate
conferences
,
that
I
haue
good
cause
to
suspect
,
it
was
rather
enuie
,
then
any
thing
else
which
induced
most
of
them
to
be
of
that
opinion
.
If
it
be
a
worke
soe
proper
to
a
Diuine
,
that
noe
man
else
ought
to
haue
medled
with
it
,
I
would
some
of
them
had
taken
it
in
hand
,
who
giue
me
so
little
thankes
for
my
labor
,
that
we
might
haue
seene
with
what
spirit
they
are
guided
.
I
wonder
what
diuine
calling
HOPKINS
and
STERNHOLD
had
more
then
I
haue
,
that
their
metricall
Psalmes
may
be
allowed
of
rather
then
my
Hymnes
.
Surely
,
yf
to
haue
been
Groomes
,
of
the
priuie
Chamber
,
were
sufficient
to
quallify
them
;
that
profession
which
I
am
of
,
may
as
wel
fitt
me
for
what
I
haue
vndertaken
;
whoe
haueing
first
layd
the
foundation
of
my
studies
in
one
of
our
famous
Vniuersityes
,
haue
euer
since
builded
thereon
,
towards
the
erecting
of
such
fabricks
,
as
I
haue
nowe
in
hand
.
But
,
I
would
gladly
know
by
what
rule
those
men
discerne
of
spirites
,
who
condemne
my
endeauour
as
the
worke
of
a
priuate
spirit
.
The
tyme
was
,
men
did
iudge
the
tree
by
his
fruite
,
but
now
they
will
iudge
the
friute
by
the
Tree
.
If
I
haue
expressed
any
thing
repugnant
to
the
Analogy
of
the
Christian
Fayth
;
or
irreuerently
opposed
the
orderly
and
allowed
Discipline
;
or
●…issented
in
any
poynt
from
that
spirit
of
Verity
which
breathes
through
the
holy
Catholicke
Church
;
then
let
that
which
I
haue
done
be
taxed
for
the
worke
of
a
priuat
spirit
.
Or
if
it
may
appeare
,
that
I
haue
vndecently
intruded
my selfe
to
intermedle
with
those
mysteryes
of
our
Christian
Sanctuarye
,
which
the
God
of
Order
hath
by
his
deuine
Lawe
reserued
for
those
whoe
haue
,
according
to
his
Ordinance
,
a
speciall
calling
therunto
;
Then
indeed
let
me
be
taxed
as
deseruing
both
punishment
&
reproofe
.
But
,
if
makeing
Conscience
of
my
Actions
,
I
obserued
that
seemely
distance
which
may
make
yt
apeare
,
I
intruded
not
vpon
ought
appropriated
to
the
outward
ministry
;
If
,
like
an
honest
harted
Gibeonit
I
haue
but
a
litle
extraordinarily
laboured
,
to
howe
wood
and
drawe
water
,
for
the
spirituall
Sacrifizes
;
If
,
according
to
the
art
of
the
Apothecary
,
I
haue
composed
a
sweete
perfume
to
offer
vp
to
God
,
in
such
manner
as
is
proper
to
my
owne
Faculty
onely
,
and
then
brought
yt
to
those
vnto
whome
the
consecration
thereof
belonges
;
If
,
keeping
my
owne
place
,
I
haue
labored
for
the
building
vp
of
Gods
house
as
I
am
bound
to
do
,
in
offering
vp
of
that
which
God
hath
giuen
mee
,
and
makeing
vse
with
modestie
of
those
gyfts
which
were
bestowed
on
me
to
that
purpose
:
If
I
say
,
the
case
be
so
,
what
blame
worthy
haue
I
done
?
why
should
those
disciples
which
followe
Christ
in
a
nearer
place
,
forbid
vs
(
from
doeing
good
in
his
name
)
who
follow
him
,
farther
off
?
why
shoulde
they
with
Ioshuah
forbid
Eldad
and
Medad
from
prophesying
,
seeing
euery
good
Christian
wisheth
with
Moses
,
that
all
Gods
people
were
prophets
,
and
that
he
would
giue
his
spirit
to
them
all
.
If
I
could
haue
beleeued
that
for
me
to
enter
into
Orders
would
haue
made
me
either
the
more
profitable
instrument
of
Gods
glory
,
or
caused
my
labors
to
haue
been
the
more
holie
or
the
more
edifyinge
;
what
had
letted
me
to
procure
that
aduantag
?
Noe
man
liuing
more
honors
that
calling
(
or
would
think
himselfe
more
honord
)
by
being
admitted
therinto
,
them
I.
yea
,
often
haue
I
been
vrged
vnto
it
,
&
my
possibillityes
of
outward
preferments
that
way
,
are
not
the
least
.
neuertheles
,
I
am
not
only
priuie
to
much
vnworthines
,
and
many
insufficiencies
in
my selfe
,
iustly
disenabling
me
of
that
function
;
but
my
mind
perswads
me
also
,
that
God
hath
appoynted
me
to
serue
him
in
some
other
course
.
There
are
diuers
guyftes
,
and
diuersitys
of
callings
;
and
by
the
guift
God
hath
giuen
him
,
euery
man
may
guesse
at
his
calling
,
as
the
souldier
may
know
in
what
part
of
the
battell
to
range
himselfe
,
by
those
Arms
his
Captayne
appoynted
him
vnto
:
and
that
place
he
ought
to
make
good
,
vntyll
he
finde
himselfe
furnished
and
authorized
for
another
Station
.
I
wil
,
as
the
Apostle
counsells
me
,
striue
and
coue●…
for
the
best
guifts
so
farr
as
God
shall
enable
me
:
but
in
what
place
soeuer
I
make
vse
of
them
(
I
thinke
)
I
may
be
indifferent
.
For
,
euery
good
guift
of
God
may
be
employed
with
aduantage
in
any
vocation
,
one
tyme
or
other
.
A
common
souldier
haueing
the
experience
of
a
commaunder
,
may
by
advising
and
directing
his
fellowes
in
familliarity
,
and
by
keep●…ing
his
place
with
them
as
a
companion
;
fynd
opportunity
perhaps
,
to
instruct
them
better
in
some
military
discipline
,
then
the
office
of
a
Captayn
will
permitt
.
And
soe
fares
it
in
the
christian
warfarr
.
Yea
,
euen
I
my selfe
haue
many
tymes
found
occasion
by
meanes
of
my
habite
and
outward
fashion
of
life
,
to
effect
some
good
which
I
shoulde
hardly
haue
brought
to
passe
by
a
more
strict
profession
.
And
as
some
cheerefull
laborer
,
by
carying
stones
&
morter
(
by
encouraging
his
fellowes
,
and
giuing
now
and
then
a
word
of
direction
)
may
further
the
building
of
a
house
more
then
many
others
,
and
winn
great
commendation
in
that
imployment
;
who
would
be
rather
a
let
(
if
not
the
ruin
of
it
)
if
he
should
take
vpon
him
to
lay
the
stones
;
So
,
I
that
haue
as
a
common
labourer
seriously
and
some
way
profitably
endeuoured
;
presuming
into
the
place
of
a
master
workman
,
may
become
lesse
●…eruiceable
,
and
peraduenture
a
trouble
to
the
busines
which
I
thought
to
further
.
Let
it
not
therefore
,
I
beseech
you
,
be
an
imputation
vnto
me
,
that
I
haue
performed
a
better
worke
than
my
calling
seems
to
oblige
me
vnto
.
For
,
though
some
haue
taxed
mee
for
medlinge
with
that
which
seemes
more
properly
to
belong
to
their
profession
;
it
is
odds
but
they
are
other
while
as
busie
in
some
employments
which
would
better
haue
beseemed
a
man
of
my
quallity
,
then
one
of
their
cote
;
and
therfore
,
let
vs
excuse
&
forgiue
one
another
.
That
which
I
haue
done
,
when
it
was
my
owne
;
was
subiect
to
any
mans
censure
:
but
,
nowe
Authority
hath
consecrated
it
,
and
deliuered
the
same
forth
for
publike
vse
;
yt
is
noe
more
myne
,
but
the
worke
of
Authority
which
they
depraue
.
Let
al
my
writings
priuatly
or
publikly
dispersed
,
be
examined
from
the
first
Epygram
that
euer
I
composed
,
vntyll
the
publishing
of
these
Hymnes
now
traduced
by
my
aduersaries
;
and
if
there
can
be
found
out
one
lyne
sauouring
of
such
a
mynde
,
as
may
giue
cause
to
suspect
I
vndertooke
that
taske
,
without
that
true
Christian
ayme
which
I
ought
to
haue
had
;
or
if
the
performance
it selfe
shall
make
it
appeare
that
I
proceeded
without
due
preparation
;
or
if
you
can
haue
any
probable
testimony
that
throughout
the
course
of
my
lyfe
,
or
by
any
one
sāndalous
act
,
I
haue
giuen
that
cause
of
offence
as
may
disparage
my
studis
,
or
trouble
their
deuotions
to
whose
vse
my
Hymns
are
tendered
;
let
those
thinges
be
layde
to
my
charge
,
vntyll
I
find
meanes
to
disprooue
or
wash
away
such
imputations
.
Sure
I
am
,
no
man
can
attempt
such
a
worke
with
a
heart
more
desireous
to
be
rectified
,
or
more
fearefull
to
offend
by
a
negligent
performance
;
and
therefore
if
I
wanted
an
outward
calling
thereunto
,
(
which
this
Reuerent
Assembly
may
supply
)
yet
I
hope
I
had
that
inward
calling
which
is
beyond
the
power
of
any
to
conferr
.
But
,
obserue
the
mallice
of
the
Stationers
;
they
are
not
content
to
smother
my
booke
as
much
as
may
be
,
by
denying
to
giue
it
vtterance
according
as
the
King
hath
commaunded
,
and
as
by
their
trade
they
ought
to
doe
;
or
to
disparage
it
,
by
striuing
to
make
me
seeme
vnfitting
or
insufficient
for
a
worke
of
that
nature
:
but
,
to
countenance
their
detractions
,
they
pretend
,
as
I
sayde
before
,
that
the
Lo:
Archb:
with
other
of
your
LLos
:
haue
disliked
my
Hymnes
,
&
that
my
Lo:
of
Canterbury
would
this
Parlament
take
order
to
suppresse
them
.
I
cannot
but
wonder
at
the
bouldnesse
and
impudence
of
these
fellowes
,
that
dare
publish
such
improbable
vntruthes
,
to
the
disparagement
of
honorable
personages
.
For
,
many
of
your
Reuerences
haue
receiued
those
Hymnes
at
my
hands
,
and
returned
me
that
good
respect
,
which
hath
been
my
encouragement
;
and
I
cannot
thinke
,
any
possessing
those
reuerent
places
,
would
haue
so
much
forgotten
humanity
as
to
haue
condemned
my
labors
in
such
fashi●…
as
those
giue
out
.
It
cannot
be
thought
,
they
censured
them
vpon
the
Stationers
reports
;
seeing
that
were
an
inexcusable
leuity
;
and
if
they
examined
it
,
me
thinks
my
paynes
,
my
pyous
intention
,
and
the
good
vse
which
may
be
made
of
that
booke
,
would
haue
mooued
them
to
counsell
me
how
to
amend
that
which
was
found
amisse
,
rather
then
to
disparage
my
whole
work
,
for
a
few
ouersights
.
Can
I
suppose
they
who
should
encourage
men
in
their
pyous
studies
,
(
and
be
glad
to
see
that
we
are
able
in
any
measure
to
exercise
our
facultyes
towardes
the
setting
forth
of
Gods
prayse
)
would
be
so
harsh
,
to
giue
me
hard
censures
for
my
paynes
;
because
,
forsooth
,
I
haue
not
answered
their
expectations
,
in
some
one
t●…iuiall
poynt
?
Sure
,
this
were
not
that
tendernesse
which
might
be
expected
in
the
Fathers
of
the
Church
;
nor
do
I
beleue
that
any
of
your
LL●…s
:
would
vse
that
seuerity
towards
me
:
for
then
,
if
I
had
no●…
better
comfortes
then
such
critescisme
affords
,
those
who
w●…
their
tyme
altogether
in
idlenesse
,
and
abuse
their
facultyes
to
vainest
purposes
,
are
in
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
●…n
I.
Now
,
that
they
haue
abused
my
Lo:
Grace
of
〈◊〉
,
by
〈◊〉
his
dislike
of
my
booke
,
(
to
the
disparagement
thereof
)
I
shal
make
yt
very
apparent
.
For
,
his
Grace
tooke
notise
that
my
booke
was
perused
and
allowed
by
his
Maiestie
himselfe
;
and
worthily
approued
his
Royall
iudgement
both
in
Diuinity
and
Poetry
,
the
Stationers
beeing
present
:
he
was
informed
likewise
,
concerning
euery
perticuler
circumstance
in
the
Grant
,
and
how
it
was
his
Maiesties
pleasure
my
booke
should
be
anexed
to
the
metricall
Psalmes
;
and
thereupon
both
illustrated
the
reasonablenesse
thereof
to
the
sayd
stationers
,
and
gaue
them
and
me
incouragment
to
proceed
to
composition
touching
the
same
:
moreouer
,
the
Canonical
Hymnes
haueing
beene
allowed
by
the
Lo:
Bp:
of
London
(
&
part
of
them
imprinted
for
an
assay
)
I
deliuered
to
my
L
:
Archbs
:
own
hands
a
coppy
of
them
almost
fowre
yeare
agoe
;
since
when
(
about
two
yeares
after
)
they
,
being
imprinted
altogether
,
passed
without
contradiction
,
euen
to
the
diuvlging
of
a
full
impression
:
and
lastly
haueing
an
addition
of
spirituall
Songes
,
for
the
obseruable
tymes
,
they
came
forth
altogether
,
authorised
as
well
by
the
Kinges
perticuler
approbation
,
as
by
the
common
allowance
appoynted
by
the
State
.
Yea
my
Lo:
of
Canterbury
himselfe
,
receiued
one
of
those
bookes
from
me
vpon
Michelmas
day
last
,
and
,
giuing
me
order
to
alter
one
word
only
,
hath
permitted
al
the
rest
to
haue
free
passage
without
controwle
.
Is
it
likely
then
,
that
my
Lord
will
soe
iniure
the
Kinges
iudgement
and
his
owne
,
as
to
disparage
in
priuate
,
what
they
haue
publikely
allowed
;
or
secretly
combine
with
the
stationers
to
oppose
the
Kinges
royall
commaund
,
in
that
which
he
himselfe
,
hath
approoued
reasonable
?
Is
it
likely
his
Grace
would
soe
dishonor
the
reuerent
Authority
of
his
place
,
as
to
make
the
stationers
or
bookebinders
his
instruments
of
suppressing
my
booke
,
in
such
a
scandalous
fashion
;
consideringe
what
power
hee
hath
giuen
him
,
to
take
order
and
reforme
in
matters
of
that
nature
?
or
is
it
likely
that
his
Lp
:
had
soe
litle
compassion
and
respect
,
as
not
to
consider
what
faultinesse
might
bee
in
my
Hymnes
,
or
what
inconuenience
might
arise
by
my
Graunt
,
vntyll
I
had
bestowed
(
besides
my
paynes
)
so
much
cost
in
printing
them
,
that
he
might
at
one
blowe
,
make
frustrate
my
studies
,
and
quite
ouerthrowe
my
estate
both
together
?
Whilst
there
was
hope
of
a
composition
betweene
me
and
the
stationers
▪
the
Priueledg
was
no
Greeuance
,
neither
was
there
any
fault
found
with
my
Hymnes
;
and
is
it
likly
that
since
our
disgreement
,
mallice
and
detraction
should
finde
out
those
escapes
,
which
the
eye
of
Authority
could
not
discouer
?
Is
it
likely
my
Lo:
would
●…e
soe
partiall
as
to
passe
ouer
all
my
paynes
,
and
vnquestionable
expressions
without
regard
;
&
finding
but
one
place
doubtful
,
(
as
easie
to
bee
amended
as
found
fault
withall
)
that
he
would
haue
sought
to
cast
away
my
whole
endeuour
for
that
ouersighte
which
I
was
able
and
ready
,
with
all
humility
to
reforme
?
Or
is
it
likly
he
reputed
of
so
litle
consequence
,
what
the
King
was
pleased
to
peruse
&
grant
a
priueledg
for
;
that
neither
his
priuate
deuotion
,
nor
his
publike
care
,
would
moue
him
to
consider
what
good
or
inconuenience
might
succeede
vpon
the
publication
thereof
,
vntill
the
stationers
had
for
their
owne
endes
awakened
him
?
Or
if
it
were
considered
;
can
I
thinke
he
would
haue
beene
silent
vntill
it
might
be
obiected
to
my
publike
disgrace
?
It
cannot
be
,
but
that
they
haue
abused
my
Lds
:
Grace
and
diuers
other
reuerend
personages
in
their
reports
.
For
,
such
vsage
of
me
were
not
answereable
to
the
reuerence
&
pyety
of
their
callings
;
&
if
religious
endeuours
should
euer
finde
such
encouragmentes
;
there
were
more
hope
of
thrift
(
to
the
worldwarde
)
by
makeing
Ballades
for
the
company
of
stationers
,
then
coulde
bee
by
composing
of
Hymns
and
spirituall
Songes
for
the
honor
of
God
.
I
hope
no
man
in
authority
enuies
me
the
honor
of
my
emploiment
▪
nor
grudges
mee
that
poore
profite
which
my
labors
may
honestly
bring
in
.
For
,
though
it
bee
no●…
meane
content
to
a
christian
,
(
whose
soule
is
touched
with
the
vnderstanding
of
spirituall
comfortes
)
to
bee
an
instrument
of
Gods
glory
;
yet
,
that
which
I
haue
attempted
,
mak●…
me
in
regard
of
one
of
you
,
noe
better
then
the
meanest
seruant
attendinge
on
the
outward
ceremonies
,
is
in
comparison
of
him
,
that
hath
the
most
holy
mysteries
of
the
Church
committed
to
his
dispensation
.
And
as
for
the
benefit
likely
to
arise
vnto
me
from
that
I
haue
done
;
I
know
not
what
it
may
proue
hereafter
,
but
hitherto
I
haue
bene
acquainted
with
nothing
saue
the
priuation
of
it
;
and
haue
beene
so
preposterously
rewarded
for
my
best
labors
,
that
if
all
those
whoe
are
thought
to
censure
me
,
had
mett
with
such
discouragments
as
I
haue
done
;
it
is
tenn
to
one
,
but
some
of
them
now
(
florishing
in
eminent
places
)
had
sate
as
lowe
as
I
doe
at
this
day
.
But
,
if
it
shall
please
my
Lo:
of
Canterbury
:
to
pardon
them
for
abusing
his
name
in
the
disparagement
of
my
Hymnes
;
I
shal
also
forgiue
them
.
For
,
beeing
warrantable
in
themselues
,
no
mans
Authority
shal
be
able
to
dishonor
them
:
nor
cann
his
eminence
excuse
them
,
if
they
be
not
iustifyable
in
their
owne
nature
.
I
will
therefore
proceede
to
answere
those
two
perticulers
,
which
are
principally
obiected
against
my
booke
of
Hymnes
,
by
the
Stationers
,
and
their
Abet●…ers
.
First
;
they
impudently
giue
out
,
that
the
Song
of
Solomon
is
not
fit
to
be
expressed
in
Lyricke
verse
:
and
that
my
expression
thereof
,
is
in
some
places
obscēe
.
Which
,
as
I
perswad
my selfe
,
I
shal
be
able
to
disproue
;
&
shew
that
(
vpon
due
examination
)
the
modesty
of
my
Version
,
with
the
conueniency
of
publishing
that
Song
shall
appeare
so
euident
,
as
will
make
them
ashamed
of
their
mallice
and
ignorance
▪
who
oppose
it
.
For
,
whatsoeuer
I
am
in
my
outward
appearance
,
I
neither
consulted
with
flesh
and
bloode
nor
with
myne
owne
fancy
.
when
I
medled
with
that
sacred
Mistery
:
and
therefore
(
seeing
there
bee
those
who
doe
not
onely
cauill
against
the
publycation
of
the
Canticles
in
Lyticke
Verse
,
but
vnciuelly
censure
also
,
with
what
minde
I
was
employed
on
that
subiect
)
I
could
wish
that
,
before
they
passe
further
in
their
iudgments
vpon
that
booke
,
or
me
;
they
would
a
little
iudge
themselues
,
&
impartially
examine
their
owne
hearts
,
whether
it
be
not
spleene
or
enuy
which
hath
moued
them
,
to
carp
at
my
labours
.
If
it
had
not
beene
soe
,
I
should
haue
beene
tymely
and
Christianly
admonished
,
rather
then
so
inhumanly
traduced
,
as
I
haue
been
,
where
I
was
not
to
make
answere
for
my selfe
:
yea
,
I
hauing
professed
so
much
willingnesse
to
harken
to
instruction
,
some
of
them
would
haue
thought
me
worthy
the
speaking
vnto
in
a
matter
of
that
consequence
;
and
there
would
haue
beene
vsed
such
sweete
mildenesse
in
the
reproofe
,
with
such
respect
of
my
labor
and
expences
,
and
such
care
to
haue
preserued
my
credit
and
Christian
patience
in
the
remedy
of
my
ouersight
,
as
would
haue
witnessed
from
what
good
spirit
it
proceeded
.
And
,
thus
I
shall
expect
to
be
dealt
withall
,
if
:
Authority
shall
please
to
call
into
question
my
Performances
.
But
,
from
my
Traducers
what
good
vsage
can
I
expect
,
seeing
they
haue
not
spared
God
,
but
blasphemously
termed
the
expressions
of
his
holy
spirit
Obscene
?
For
,
this
some
of
the
most
eminent
of
the
stationers
haue
not
blushed
in
publike
to
affirme
,
in
the
most
immodest
tearmes
;
whereupon
many
of
the
inferiors
of
their
fraternity
,
doe
(
insteed
of
vsing
my
booke
to
that
Christian
vse
for
which
it
was
published
)
cary
the
same
about
them
purposly
to
disparage
it
.
Yea
,
at
their
Tauerne
tiplings
,
and
in
all
companies
whereinto
they
can
thrust
themselues
,
they
seeke
occasion
to
posses
their
hearers
,
that
my
book
is
vnworthy
to
be
receiued
among
good
people
:
And
the
place
(
which
to
their
vnderstanding
is
so
offensiue
)
is
in
the
ninth
Canticle
,
where
I
render
,
THE
KNITTING
OF
THE
THIGHES
,
what
the
Latyne
translates
,
IVNCTVRAE
FEMORVM
.
and
our
English
Version
,
THE
IOINTS
of
the
Thighes
.
I
beseech
you
,
what
Obscenity
is
in
that
,
more
then
in
the
holy
Ghosts
owne
wordes
?
To
the
cleane
all
thinges
are
cleane
.
And
I
protest
before
God
(
at
whose
throne
I
shal
be
iudged
for
it
,
if
I
lye
)
I
doe
not
remember
that
I
had
one
immodest
thought
(
so
much
as
cast
into
me
)
by
meanes
of
any
expression
in
that
holy
Song
,
during
the
tyme
I
was
busied
thereabout
.
But
,
with
those
cleane
thoughtes
,
I
contemplated
the
louelinesse
of
Gods
workemanshipp
,
in
the
seuerall
parts
of
the
body
;
and
there
withall
,
soe
temperately
meditated
those
passions
and
passages
,
which
are
incident
to
an
honest
naturall
affection
;
that
,
by
contemplating
those
materiall
obiectes
,
I
raysed
my
vnderstanding
to
more
then
vsuall
apprehensions
of
that
vnspeakeable
loue
,
which
is
between
the
Diuine
and
human
nature
in
generall
;
and
betweene
Iesus
Christ
and
my
owne
soule
in
perticuler
.
And
,
as
I
haue
been
,
more
then
ordinarily
apprehensiue
of
the
contentments
&
discontentments
incident
to
a
naturall
loue
,
(
lymited
within
the
boundes
of
Chastity
)
Soe
;
that
heauenly
Song
,
hitherto
vndiscreetly
neglected
(
and
by
the
mallice
of
the
Deuill
iudged
dangerous
to
be
made
common
)
taught
me
to
be
much
the
more
affected
with
those
kindnesses
,
&
vnkindnesses
,
which
I
felt
betwene
God
and
my selfe
.
Yea
,
so
was
I
mooued
thereby
,
as
it
cann
neither
be
exprest
by
me
,
nor
conceiued
by
those
,
who
haue
irreuerent
opinions
of
the
meanes
God
hath
prepared
to
beget
those
apprehensions
in
their
soules
.
Those
that
acquire
their
Diuinity
,
meerly
by
reading
books
,
will
perswade
vs
,
out
of
some
few
weake
Authorityes
,
perhapps
,
that
the
Song
of
Solomon
is
not
to
be
read
of
yong
men
;
but
by
those
onely
,
in
whom
the
carnal
affections
are
quit
mortified
.
which
(
the
scope
of
the
holyghost
being
well
considered
)
is
iust
as
if
they
should
tell
vs
,
Fyre
were
to
be
made
,
rather
with
Ashes
then
with
wood
.
But
,
he
that
hath
gayned
his
humble
knowledge
,
both
by
hearing
the
Church
,
&
obseruing
the
power
which
Gods
word
hath
showne
vpon
him
,
in
his
own
affections
;
is
perswaded
that
heauenly
Poeme
was
composed
&
preserued
for
the
pyous
vse
of
al
men
;
&
principally
for
yong
louers
,
inflamed
with
a
naturall
loue
:
that
by
their
carnall
affections
they
might
ascend
,
&
be
made
capeable
of
that
which
is
spiritual
.
So
,
other
Allegoryes
,
are
chiefly
intended
to
stirr
vp
those
whoe
are
subiect
to
other
Affections
.
For
,
litle
would
it
preuaile
with
an
olde
man
,
whose
heart
is
setled
vpon
riches
,
and
such
like
,
to
illustrat
the
pleasure
he
might
receiue
in
his
communion
with
God
,
by
setting
before
him
the
mutual
contentments
enterchanged
between
two
affectionat
Louers
;
seeing
those
passages
are
vsually
derided
by
the
elder
sort
.
And
lesse
would
it
moue
that
yong
man
who
is
delighted
in
beauty
,
and
the
perfections
of
his
belooued
,
to
expresse
vnto
him
the
spirituall
happinesse
,
by
Tytles
,
Treasures
,
or
the
profites
and
pleasures
of
a
vineyarde
;
which
hee
meanely
regards
.
I
humbly
desire
your
RRces
,
that
my
Christian
labour
in
prepareing
that
Song
for
a
more
frequent
vse
,
may
not
be
made
voyde
,
or
become
despised
by
those
who
speake
euill
of
that
they
vnderstand
not
.
The
dispisednesse
of
my
person
and
quallity
,
may
at
first
appearance
,
easily
drawe
a
rash
censure
vpon
my
actions
(
before
due
consideration
)
as
it
hath
often
done
:
And
their
opinion
who
oppose
the
publication
of
the
Canticles
in
Lyricke
Verse
,
carryes
such
a
formall
showe
of
reuerence
to
that
holy
Poeme
,
and
hath
,
at
first
sight
,
such
a
shaddowe
of
pyous
respect
(
by
reason
of
the
spareing
vse
which
the
Church
hath
heretofore
seemed
to
make
of
those
Hymnes
)
that
it
may
,
at
a
blush
,
deceiue
the
vnderstandinges
of
good
and
learned
men
.
But
if
they
take
leasure
to
examine
the
true
state
of
the
Question
,
they
wil
be
able
to
satisfy
both
themselues
and
others
,
against
that
fruitleesst
opinion
;
which
being
mayntayned
will
open
passage
agayn
or
their
heresie
,
who
deny
vnto
the
lay
people
the
free
vse
of
holy
Scripture
.
Those
whoe
please
to
obserue
with
good
purpose
my
generall
preface
to
that
Song
,
and
my
Argumentes
before
each
perticuler
Canto
,
shall
finde
how
necessary
it
is
to
bee
presented
to
an
vniuersall
consideration
;
and
perceiue
whether
I
haue
spiritually
,
or
carnally
meditated
thereon
,
and
whether
I
haue
beene
guided
by
the
interpretations
of
the
Catholike
Church
,
or
by
myne
owne
fancy
.
If
I
haue
any
way
●…rred
,
I
am
hartily
sory
for
yt
,
and
(
humbly
desireing
pardon
)
am
ready
to
giue
satisfaction
,
both
by
publik
acknowledgment
,
of
my
ouersight
,
and
in
takeinge
away
,
or
reforming
what
is
amisse
.
If
I
haue
don
wel
;
God
forgiue
them
whose
fleshly
vnderstandinges
haue
abused
my
good
intentions
;
and
I
wish
them
the
spirite
of
true
charitye
,
that
they
may
beecome
more
capeable
of
that
celestiall
Loue
Song
.
For
,
the
sweete
contentmentes
which
I
tasted
in
contemplateinge
the
mysteryes
therein
contayned
,
were
somwhat
interrupted
,
through
the
care
I
had
of
them
,
whose
ignorance
,
or
wilfull
blindnesse
would
depriue
both
themselues
and
others
of
those
comfortes
.
And
I
pray
God
those
that
speake
irreuerently
of
that
Song
,
or
hinder
the
publycation
thereof
(
in
such
wise
as
may
best
rouze
vp
the
spiritual
affections
)
may
repent
themselues
thereof
,
least
they
come
within
danger
of
that
curse
those
are
lieable
vnto
,
whoe
add
,
or
take
away
from
the
booke
of
God
.
For
,
though
some
foolish
Verse-haters
(
who
are
wise
men
in
their
owne
opinions
)
haue
vndiscreetly
passed
their
censures
against
translating
the
Canonicall
Hymnes
into
our
English
Numbers
;
I
shall
bee
able
not
onely
to
make
proofe
,
vpon
good
occasion
,
that
they
may
be
as
truely
converted
into
our
meeter
as
into
Prose
;
and
that
our
English
measures
are
capable
of
expressing
them
with
as
much
power
,
and
grauity
;
but
to
demonstrat
also
,
that
Verse
was
first
inuented
and
vsed
altogether
in
setting
forth
the
prayses
of
God
▪
and
that
those
thinges
which
were
originally
penned
in
measured
word●…s
▪
cannot
be
so
properly
nor
so
vsefully
expressed
in
Prose
,
as
in
our
Verse
.
It
would
too
much
●…nlarge
this
hasty
discourse
if
I
should
deliuer
heere
all
I
could
inferr
to
that
purpose
;
or
insist
vpon
all
the
reasons
which
I
could
giue
in
defence
of
giuing
way
to
the
free
vse
of
the
Song
of
Solomon
in
our
English
meeter
.
But
,
vnder
correction
,
and
submitting
my
opinions
▪
to
your
better
Iudgments
,
I
will
in
briefe
,
answere
some
of
those
reasons
which
I
haue
heard
brought
against
the
common
vse
thereof
;
that
it
may
appeare
I
am
not
altogether
without
consideration
,
in
what
I
haue
done
.
The
principall
causes
obiected
for
restrayning
of
that
Song
,
are
three
.
First
,
least
it
should
be
abused
by
prophane
or
indis●…reet
people
;
Secondly
,
because
the
Iewish
Rabbines
haue
restrayned
it
from
their
Laicty
,
as
vnfit
for
the
vulger
;
and
lastly
,
by
reason
the
Christian
Church
(
as
they
thinke
)
hath
neither
by
command
nor
by
practise
,
warranted
the
same
.
It
is
true
,
that
the
Canticles
,
may
be
,
and
are
often
abused
,
(
yea
and
the
rest
of
the
holy
scriptures
)
euen
by
those
who
by
restrayning
them
,
seeke
to
preuent
their
abuse
,
as
well
as
by
others
.
But
God
forbid
,
that
such
as
would
rightly
apply
them
,
should
be
depriued
of
their
most
comfortable
vse
,
because
sensuall
men
will
turne
that
grace
of
God
into
wantonnesse
.
By
that
rule
,
the
vse
of
most
thinges
should
be
taken
away
:
for
,
many
men
abuse
their
liberty
in
that
which
is
most
lawfull
:
yea
,
the
whole
booke
of
holy
scriptures
should
be
sealed
vp
,
because
many
haue
heritically
applyed
them
;
seeing
the
same
may
be
alleadged
for
denyinge
the
vse
of
both
Testamentes
,
which
is
obiected
for
restrayning
the
Canticles
.
The
word
of
God
looseth
no
worth
,
by
any
mans
abusing
of
it
;
but
he
that
abuseth
the
same
,
harmeth
himselfe
onely
,
and
them
whose
owne
corruptions
haue
made
that
the
sauour
of
death
vnto
them
,
which
is
lyfe
in
it
owne
nature
:
and
whose
power
,
if
it
bee
hidden
,
is
hidden
to
those
onely
that
perish
.
Seeinge
we
permitt
the
rest
of
Gods
booke
to
be
read
of
all
without
exception
,
and
euen
this
songe
in
the
Prose
;
why
should
it
be
more
offensiue
in
the
meeter
?
since
Diuinity
and
the
prayses
of
God
,
may
be
prooued
(
as
I
haue
sayd
before
)
to
be
the
most
auncient
and
most
proper
subiects
of
Verse
.
If
I
haue
not
exprest
the
meaning
of
the
Originall
soe
truely
,
or
soe
grauely
,
as
the
prose
hath
don
;
let
it
be
declared
in
what
pertituler
,
and
I
cann
amend
the
ouersight
,
as
easily
as
it
may
be
found
.
For
,
whatsoeuer
sence
is
giuen
mee
in
prose
,
I
can
as
fully
and
as
playnely
expresse
,
againe
in
measured
words
.
Yea
,
I
doubt
not
,
but
I
shall
be
able
to
iustifie
that
my
Metricall
Version
of
the
Canticles
,
is
as
proper
,
as
modest
,
and
as
perspicuous
as
most
prose
Translations
;
and
that
those
who
accuse
it
of
Obscenity
(
haueing
vncleane
thoughtes
themselues
)
doe
rather
accuse
God
then
me
,
and
blasphemously
disparage
the
wisedome
of
the
holy
ghost
.
But
,
noe
wonder
:
to
the
fylthy
all
thinges
are
filthy
;
euen
the
purity
of
God
seemes
vncleannes
to
them
;
and
their
preposterous
discretion
is
ashamed
of
his
prudence
.
But
,
some
obiect
it
is
vnfitting
that
Mystery
should
be
exposed
to
the
viewe
and
perusall
of
children
;
and
I
say
also
that
it
is
as
vnseemely
the
childrens
bread
should
be
deuoured
of
doggs
,
or
that
pearles
should
be
cast
before
swine
Neuerthelesse
these
thinges
do
often
fall
out
soe
,
without
remedy
:
and
pitty
it
were
that
bread
should
be
kept
altogether
from
the
children
,
because
they
somtyme
spoyle
or
play
childishly
with
that
,
which
shoulde
feede
and
norrish
them
.
The
story
of
the
incest
of
that
Lot
,
of
Thamer
,
&
diuers
other
passages
in
holy
scripture
,
are
more
subiect
to
abuse
then
the
Canticles
;
yet
clildren
are
permitted
to
reade
them
,
because
we
knowe
not
by
what
warrant
wee
may
diuide
them
from
the
booke
of
God
.
The
best
course
therefore
,
is
to
instruct
them
with
what
mynde
to
pervse
them
,
or
to
prefixe
such
warnings
before
those
places
,
as
I
set
before
my
Version
of
Solomons
song
.
For
,
there
I
haue
adiured
al
Readers
,
vnder
payne
of
Gods
heauy
indignation
,
to
be
wary
with
what
mind
and
to
what
end
,
they
shall
make
vse
of
those
excellent
Hymns
:
which
I
am
perswaded
,
will
be
a
meanes
to
make
them
lesse
abused
hereafter
.
The
truth
is
,
they
cannot
be
more
prophaned
by
children
,
then
the
whole
Booke
of
God
is
by
those
that
peruse
it
negligently
;
nor
soe
much
as
the
most
easie
and
most
vsefull
passages
thereof
,
are
,
by
those
presumptious
Libertynes
,
and
scoffing
Atheists
,
who
make
application
of
them
accordinge
to
their
owne
humors
.
For
,
though
an
ignorant
simplicity
,
makes
children
sometyme
misunderstand
such
thinges
as
they
read
▪
or
frutlesly
passe
them
ouer
,
yet
they
doe
not
wilfully
peruert
them
to
wicked
purposes
;
And
therefore
,
God
doth
many
times
giue
such
a
blessing
euen
to
that
which
in
their
childhood
they
pervsed
without
vnderstanding
,
as
that
many
tymes
it
is
a
meanes
of
bringing
it
the
better
into
memory
(
to
their
great
profit
and
comfort
)
in
riper
yeares
.
No
holy
scripture
,
or
canon
of
our
Church
,
hath
commaunded
the
keepeing
of
this
,
or
that
parte
of
Gods
Booke
,
from
publike
vse
:
and
therefore
why
should
any
dissallowe
free
passage
to
those
Hymnes
in
their
proper
kinde
?
seeing
noe
man
knoweth
by
what
portion
of
his
worde
,
the
Diuine
prouidence
shall
please
to
call
his
children
vnto
a
true
vnderstanding
of
their
duties
?
who
can
tell
,
but
that
which
is
restrayned
,
may
be
with
held
from
such
as
woulde
receiue
needefull
comfortes
thereby
,
as
well
as
from
those
whoe
will
▪
abuse
it
?
One
tyme
or
another
,
wee
may
be
enlightened
by
what
is
for
a
season
obscure
vnto
vs
;
and
that
sentence
which
was
an
occasion
of
stumbling
,
may
be
a
meanes
of
rising
againe
to
more
strength
being
better
vnderstood
.
Yea
,
(
I
perswade
my selfe
)
it
is
lesse
inconuenient
,
that
a
thousand
carnal
men
should
add
to
their
confusion
by
the
abuse
of
Gods
grace
,
then
that
one
of
his
children
should
want
any
comfort
offered
in
his
word
.
Much
more
might
be
said
to
this
purpose
;
euen
so
much
,
that
(
if
the
likelyhood
of
truth
deceiue
not
)
it
would
make
euery
good
christian
fearefull
to
oppose
the
commendable
vse
of
any
part
of
Gods
word
vpon
those
weake
foundations
which
fleshlie
policy
hath
laide
:
but
this
I
hope
will
suffice
in
this
place
.
And
,
as
for
those
exceptions
made
against
the
kinde
of
Measure
which
I
haue
vsed
,
and
some
perticuler
expressions
;
I
perceiue
they
haue
been
flirted
out
,
either
in
mallice
to
mee
,
or
vpon
a
superficiall
viewe
,
without
considering
the
circumstances
,
the
proprieties
of
the
Languages
,
Metaphors
,
or
Allegories
;
and
therefore
I
regard
them
not
:
Partlie
seeing
my
Version
hath
had
the
approbation
of
better
Iudgementes
;
and
partlie
,
because
I
knowe
it
ordinarie
among
such
as
those
,
to
cauell
at
our
most
approoued
Translations
.
Whereas
some
alleage
that
the
Iewes
permitted
not
the
Song
of
Solomon
to
be
read
of
the
Vulger
;
what
is
that
to
vs
?
They
being
heritikes
we
ought
not
to
be
ledd
by
their
example
.
They
were
diuided
among
themselues
,
concerning
that
Songe
;
some
receiuing
it
among
the
bookes
called
Hagiographa
,
and
some
reiecting
it
.
And
it
may
be
,
those
whoe
reconned
it
among
the
holy
writings
;
restrayned
the
common
vse
thereof
by
reason
of
that
scandall
,
those
had
giuen
,
who
(
accountinge
it
a
prophane
writinge
)
had
foolishly
applyed
the
same
,
to
Solomon
and
Kinge
Pharaohs
daughter
:
Or
else
,
because
the
depth
of
the
Mystery
made
them
vnable
to
accomodate
it
to
the
common
capacity
.
Or
it
may
be
(
which
is
most
probable
)
they
were
moued
to
restrayne
it
throughe
the
mallice
of
the
deuill
;
that
after
tymes
following
their
example
,
the
most
excellent
Mystery
therin
couched
,
might
be
the
more
obscured
from
vs
of
later
Tymes
,
vnto
whom
the
reuelation
of
it
would
much
plainer
appeare
.
And
,
their
negatiue
is
hard
(
if
not
impossible
)
to
be
prooued
,
who
deny
that
Song
to
haue
at
any
time
beene
vsed
by
the
christian
Congregation
in
the
primatiue
ages
.
For
,
they
practised
the
singing
of
Psalms
,
and
Hymnes
,
and
spirituall
Songes
;
and
were
at
lest
counselled
(
if
not
commanded
)
by
Saint
Paul
thereto
▪
Coll:
3.
Why
therfore
,
may
we
not
thinke
,
that
Solomons
song
was
one
of
those
which
the
church
then
sunge
,
seeing
the
holy
ghost
hath
entituled
it
THE
SONG
OF
SONGS
?
If
it
were
then
sunge
,
it
is
likely
they
sung
it
in
those
languages
which
were
vnderstood
.
For
,
Saint
Paul
would
sing
,
not
with
the
spirit
only
,
but
with
the
vnderstanding
also
.
And
if
yt
may
bee
sunge
by
the
congregation
,
in
the
vulger
tongue
,
why
not
in
Verse
,
the
proper
language
of
SONG
(
and
the
most
moouinge
way
of
expression
)
?
But
,
what
necessity
is
there
of
examples
;
seeing
in
lawfull
thinges
,
we
may
make
presidentes
,
when
we
please
,
with
good
commendations
?
By
what
pulike
example
did
we
sing
Dauids
Psalms
in
English
meeter
,
before
the
Raigne
of
King
Edward
the
sixth
?
Or
by
what
commaund
of
the
Church
do
we
sing
them
as
they
are
nowe
in
vse
?
Verily
,
by
none
:
but
tyme
and
christian
deuotion
hauing
first
brought
forth
that
practise
(
by
the
prouidence
of
God
)
and
custome
ripening
it
;
long
tolleration
hath
,
in
a
manner
,
fully
authorized
the
same
.
And
,
if
our
metricall
translation
of
the
Psalmes
were
rectified
,
and
purged
from
those
imperfections
and
escapes
,
which
the
first
translators
(
worthy
to
be
christianly
excused
)
vnwillingly
committed
in
that
infancy
of
Reformation
:
There
was
neuer
any
one
accidentall
thing
in
the
outward
worshipe
of
God
,
more
helpefull
to
deuotion
(
or
more
powerfully
stirring
up
the
affections
towardes
settinge
forth
his
prayse
)
then
the
singinge
of
Psalmes
,
Hymnes
,
and
spirituall
songes
,
in
such
manner
as
the
reformed
Churches
now
vse
yt
.
I
cannot
beleeue
therefore
,
but
that
the
singing
both
of
Dauids
Psalms
and
of
the
song
of
Solomon
was
practised
in
all
ages
of
the
Church
since
Christ
,
as
freely
and
as
frequently
,
as
the
strictnes
and
blindnesse
of
the
tymes
would
permyt
;
though
not
with
soe
full
and
in
soe
publike
a
Quire
as
at
this
present
.
But
,
what
if
the
Canticles
had
not
beene
ordinarily
sung
in
former
tymes
?
can
that
prooue
the
vulger
vse
of
them
to
be
now
vnlawfull
or
inconvenient
,
more
then
the
vse
of
the
rest
of
holy
scripture
in
our
mother
tongue
;
is
proued
inconuenient
,
because
the
blindnes
of
passed
ages
causeleslye
restrayned
it
?
May
wee
not
iudge
,
it
was
rather
through
ignorance
,
and
because
they
had
them
not
prepared
to
be
sung
,
as
now
they
are
?
Or
might
it
not
be
because
the
tyme
was
not
then
come
in
which
a
more
publike
vse
thereof
would
be
most
necessary
?
For
,
the
state
of
the
mysticall
body
of
Iesus
Christ
(
from
the
creation
to
the
last
Iudgment
)
being
expressed
Allegorically
in
that
song
,
with
the
seuerall
appearances
it
had
,
and
shall
haue
in
the
seuerall
peryods
of
tyme
,
together
with
those
admyrable
loue-passages
enterchanged
beetweene
the
diuine
and
human
nature
;
we
doubtles
,
whoe
liue
in
the
last
Age
of
the
world
,
(
and
hauing
seene
by
long
experience
,
and
successe
of
thinges
,
much
more
of
that
propheticall
song
fulfilled
,
then
those
who
went
before
vs
)
may
without
disparagement
to
their
knowledges
,
vnriddle
some
darke
Aenigmas
,
heretofore
not
vnderstood
.
And
the
consumation
of
the
LAMBES
mariage
being
neere
at
hand
,
may
the
more
properly
,
sing
that
Mariage
song
of
his
,
to
the
glory
of
his
name
,
and
our
owne
spirituall
comforts
.
To
that
end
I
fitted
the
same
vnto
our
English
Lyre
,
in
measures
becomming
the
nature
of
the
subiect
,
in
a
playne
and
vnaffected
Phrase
:
and
(
if
those
whoe
vnderstand
both
the
scripture
Dialect
,
and
the
language
of
an
English
Muse
may
be
my
censurers
)
in
words
agreeable
to
the
meaning
of
the
holy
Text.
Yea
,
I
haue
so
well
as
I
was
able
(
in
so
fewe
lynes
)
opened
also
according
to
the
Doctrine
of
the
Catholicke
Church
,
the
Allegory
of
euery
perticuler
Canticle
,
that
God
might
be
the
more
glorified
,
and
the
vnlearned
both
delighted
and
profited
,
in
the
repetition
of
those
Hymns
.
And
thus
much
I
haue
deliuered
concerning
what
hath
bene
obiected
touching
the
song
of
Solomon
;
not
presuming
to
leade
your
opinions
towards
myne
owne
endes
;
but
to
declare
with
what
know
edge
and
conscience
I
haue
proceeded
therin
.
And
as
this
testifies
I
had
some
vnderstanding
of
that
I
went
about
;
so
to
giue
testimony
also
,
how
farr
I
am
from
being
wilfull
,
in
my
owne
opinions
,
I
doe
in
all
humility
submit
my selfe
to
be
rectified
by
your
RRces
,
in
whatsoeuer
I
haue
done
or
spoken
:
which
(
though
offence
had
beene
giuen
;
will
,
I
hope
▪
make
me
somwhat
more
excusable
,
then
my
aduersaryes
pretend
.
Howsoeuer
;
I
cannot
dispayre
.
For
yf
those
ouersightes
which
I
haue
vnwillingly
committed
in
that
performance
,
doe
bring
on
me
those
outward
troubles
which
shall
frustrate
some
of
my
temporall
hopes
;
yet
I
am
confident
,
that
those
christian
affections
which
Gods
mercy
hath
made
acceptable
in
me
,
shall
produce
those
inward
comfortes
which
will
vphould
my
faith
,
tyll
my
contentments
are
made
perfect
:
and
therfore
his
will
be
done
.
I
come
now
to
speake
of
that
imputation
by
which
the
stationers
and
their
Abetters
haue
don
my
book
and
me
the
greatest
iniury
:
and
that
is
in
pretending
my
Hymnes
for
the
Obseruable
tymes
,
to
be
furtherances
to
Popery
and
superstition
.
When
they
cannot
bring
men
to
dislyke
me
and
that
labor
of
myne
,
by
disparaging
the
vsefullnesse
thereof
;
they
obiect
against
the
manner
or
method
:
when
that
wil
not
serue
turne
,
they
except
against
my
calling
:
when
that
wil
not
preuaile
,
they
impudently
accuse
it
of
obscenity
:
when
that
effects
not
their
purpose
,
they
gyue
out
that
it
is
inclyning
to
Popery
:
&
when
none
of
these
courses
will
aduantage
them
,
they
rayle
,
and
send
him
that
enquires
for
the
booke
,
to
goe
and
seeke
yt
where
he
cann
.
But
,
the
best
of
their
stratagems
hath
beene
by
accusing
yt
of
fauouring
superstition
.
For
,
it
hath
not
onely
made
many
hundreds
(
whoe
knowe
not
yet
what
the
Booke
treates
of
)
to
forbeare
the
buyeng
and
perusing
of
it
;
but
hath
giuen
them
occasion
also
,
to
passe
their
censures
on
me
in
so
vnchristian
a
manner
,
as
if
I
were
an
Apostate
that
had
fallen
from
my
Religyon
;
or
sought
the
subuertion
of
yt
,
for
my
outward
profitt
.
Wheresoeuer
I
come
,
one
gyddy
brayne
or
another
,
offers
to
fall
into
disputation
with
me
about
my
Hymnes
.
Yea
;
Brockers
,
and
Costermongers
,
and
Tapsters
,
and
Pedlers
,
and
Sempsters
,
and
Fydlers
,
and
Feltmakers
,
and
all
the
Brotherhoods
of
Amsterdam
,
haue
scoffingly
passed
sentence
vpon
me
in
their
conuenticles
,
at
taphouses
and
Tauernes
.
So
that
,
insteed
of
diuvlging
my
booke
that
(
according
to
the
Kings
intent
)
yt
might
further
the
reverence
&
práctise
of
deuotion
,
and
confirme
in
his
Maiestyes
subiectes
,
obedience
to
the
pyous
discipline
of
our
Church
;
some
of
the
stationers
haue
by
traducing
it
,
giuen
ignorant
people
occasion
to
speake
the
more
in
contempt
of
those
Ordinances
which
they
ought
reuerently
to
obey
.
If
these
presumptions
shall
be
suffered
without
rebuke
,
neither
the
Authority
of
the
Church
or
State
will
shortly
take
place
,
but
that
onely
which
makes
for
the
profitt
or
humor
of
the
Stationers
▪
For
,
some
of
them
dare
already
tell
me
to
my
face
,
that
if
the
King
had
not
peremptorely
commanded
the
addition
of
my
Hymns
to
the
metricall
Psalmbooke
,
they
would
haue
the
sooner
anexed
than
;
but
by
compulsion
they
will
not
.
And
for
that
cause
,
one
of
them
(
as
hee
himselfe
affirmed
)
hath
sold
of
those
bookes
,
500
lesse
then
hee
might
haue
done
,
in
one
quarter
of
a
yeare
.
What
is
this
but
to
professe
wilfull
disobedience
in
contempt
of
his
Majestie
&
his
pious
Iniunctio
?
as
if
he
had
not
powre
to
command
the
publication
of
a
few
leaues
to
the
glory
of
God
,
without
crauing
their
fauors
?
For
,
though
it
might
be
objected
that
I
petitioned
the
sayd
Hymnes
might
be
added
to
the
metricall
Psalmes
out
of
a
priuate
respect
,
as
doubting
or
foreseeing
that
the
Stationers
and
others
would
feeke
the
suppressing
of
them
,
if
they
were
not
compounded
withall
to
their
owne
liking
.
Yet
the
Kings
Maiesty
had
no
such
ende
;
but
inioyned
the
same
meerely
to
this
christian
purpose
,
that
those
Hymnes
might
be
the
more
conueniently
dispersed
throughout
his
Dominions
,
for
the
edifying
and
instructing
of
his
Loyall
subiectes
:
perswading
himselfe
,
that
those
who
haue
enioyed
so
many
greate
Priuiledges
by
his
gratious
fauour
,
would
neuer
haue
opposed
that
authority
by
which
they
fub
sist
,
and
by
vertue
wherof
they
receiue
benefit
of
such
Grants
as
are
both
of
the
same
&
of
a
higher
nature
:
especially
seeing
it
is
probable
that
none
of
his
louing
subjectes
,
worthy
the
name
of
a
Christiâ
,
would
haue
grudged
to
enlarge
his
booke
the
quantity
of
a
fewe
leaues
(
at
the
ordinary
rate
)
to
so
pyous
an
ende
as
those
Hymnes
tend
vnto
;
considering
how
many
poundes
are
yearly
consumed
in
triuiall
Pamphlets
and
other
vayne
expences
But
why
should
I
onely
,
complayne
against
the
Stationers
,
&
the
inciuillity
of
those
whom
they
haue
stirred
vp
to
clamor
against
the
Hymnes
for
the
solemne
Dayes
,
as
if
I
alone
suffred
in
this
vproare
?
Do
not
your
RRces
perceaue
,
that
the
kings
Iudgement
&
Authority
suffers
by
it
?
Nay
perceaue
you
not
,
that
while
they
seeme
to
aime
at
me
they
strike
at
you
,
and
seeke
to
ouerthrow
or
disparage
the
allowed
Discipline
of
our
Church
?
Verily
,
that
is
the
white
which
they
seeme
to
shoote
at
.
And
there
is
not
one
of
them
,
but
if
he
dare
stand
to
his
Objections
before
this
reuerend
Assembly
,
I
dare
vndertake
to
prooue
him
to
be
little
better
then
a
Schismatick
in
his
opinions
,
&
an
enimie
to
the
goverment
established
in
the
Church
of
England
.
If
vpon
the
review
of
my
Hymnes
there
may
be
found
either
in
them
,
or
in
their
Prefaces
,
any
thing
repugnant
to
the
Catholike
Verity
,
or
the
allowed
Discipline
,
I
will
recant
it
,
make
publike
acknowledgment
of
my
error
,
and
vndergoe
what
punishment
shal
be
thought
deserued
.
For
I
had
rather
be
irrecouerably
vndon
both
in
my
credit
&
estate
,
then
to
be
an
occasion
of
preiudice
,
or
scandall
to
the
Church
of
God
.
Nay
let
all
my
labors
be
made
frustrate
and
my
person
be
deliuered
ouer
to
be
subject
to
the
tyrany
of
the
Stationers
,
if
my
Hymnes
doe
not
euidently
appeare
,
vpon
serious
viewe
,
to
be
instruments
of
Gods
glory
;
helpfull
to
deuotion
;
tending
to
Christian
Conformity
,
and
likely
to
be
a
meanes
of
deliuering
our
Solemnities
from
being
so
much
traduced
and
misvnderstood
,
for
reliques
of
Popery
,
as
heretofore
.
I
am
thus
confident
thereof
,
by
reason
of
that
blessing
which
God
hath
already
giuen
:
For
,
notwithstanding
that
great
opposition
of
the
Stationers
hitherto
made
,
and
those
vilde
imputations
which
they
haue
layd
on
my
Booke
,
Many
haue
confessed
vnto
me
that
my
Hymnes
for
the
Obseruable
Tymes
and
their
Prefaces
,
haue
made
them
more
reverently
affected
towards
that
Discipline
then
formerly
they
were
;
And
haue
professed
,
that
yt
shall
for
euer
hereafter
,
teach
them
to
be
more
conscionable
in
condemning
and
sleighting
the
obseruation
of
that
which
is
established
in
our
Church
:
Yea
,
some
Divines
haue
modestly
acknowledged
,
that
they
did
not
so
well
consider
the
piety
and
vsefulnes
of
those
observations
as
they
haue
since
done
.
If
I
were
so
greedy
of
temporall
aduantages
as
the
Stationers
iudge
me
;
or
yf
I
had
meereley
proiected
my
own
profit
in
the
course
of
my
studies
,
without
making
conscience
of
Religion
:
I
haue
had
many
,
more
easy
and
more
thriuing
waies
,
offred
me
then
the
world
is
a
ware
of
;
and
needed
not
to
haue
exprest
my selfe
in
such
manner
as
I
haue
done
in
my
Hymnes
(
which
I
was
certaine
,
before
I
published
them
would
neuer
purchase
me
good
opinion
from
Papist
or
Schifmatick
:
)
For
(
beside
other
waies
of
these
times
which
I
haue
despised
)
I
haue
been
offred
a
larger
yearely
stipend
,
and
more
respective
entertaynments
,
to
employ
my selfe
insetting
forth
hereticall
fancies
,
then
I
haue
yet
probabilitey
to
hope
for
,
by
professing
the
Trueth
.
Yea
,
I
haue
been
wooed
to
the
profession
of
theire
wilde
&
ill
grounded
opinions
,
by
the
Sectaries
of
so
many
seuerall
seperations
,
that
had
I
listed
(
or
rather
,
yf
God
had
not
been
the
more
mercyfull
vnto
me
)
I
might
haue
been
Lieutenant
,
if
not
Captaine
,
of
some
new
Band
of
such
Volunteers
,
long
ere
this
tyme
.
But
I
thanke
God
,
neyther
the
swelling
impostumations
of
vaineglory
,
nor
the
ytchings
of
singularity
;
nor
the
ticklings
of
selfe
loue
,
nor
the
convulsions
of
Enuy
,
nor
the
inflamations
of
Reuenge
,
nor
the
hunger
and
thirst
of
Gold
,
were
euer
yet
so
preuayling
ouer
me
,
as
to
mooue
me
to
the
prosecution
of
any
thinge
against
my
conscience
;
especially
,
if
yt
seemed
any
way
repugnant
to
Religion
,
or
the
authority
of
the
Church
.
Nay
,
those
things
which
I
might
iustly
and
lawfully
haue
done
to
my
great
advantage
,
and
without
reproofe
,
I
haue
voluntarily
forborne
(
euen
almost
to
the
ruine
of
my
estate
)
for
no
other
end
;
but
because
I
feared
least
the
malice
of
my
Adversaries
should
misinterpret
my
dooings
,
eyther
to
the
scandall
of
Authority
,
to
the
offence
of
ignorant
people
,
or
to
the
troubling
of
their
devotions
,
who
are
ignorant
of
the
reasonablenesse
,
and
true
purpose
of
my
actions
.
I
therefore
beseech
your
Reuerences
,
that
my
Hymnes
for
the
Observable
times
may
be
re-examined
whether
they
be
not
in
euery
circumstance
agreable
to
the
holy
Scriptures
and
discipline
of
our
Church
:
And
if
there
be
any
passage
or
expression
found
among
them
,
scandalously
faulty
,
let
it
not
onely
be
corrected
according
to
the
Truth
:
but
let
me
be
commanded
also
,
to
make
publike
acknowledgement
of
my
ouersights
:
And
if
Authority
thinke
it
expedient
,
vndergoe
some
penalty
for
my
default
.
But
if
on
the
contrary
(
as
I
hope
it
will
euidently
appeare
)
those
Hymnes
and
their
Prefaces
shall
be
approoued
much
tending
to
the
edification
of
the
people
,
and
helpefull
to
encrease
true
deuotion
and
Christian
obedience
,
by
explaning
the
pious
and
commendable
vse
of
those
Ecclesiasticall
constitutions
,
which
many
people
haue
ignorantly
judged
vnprofitable
,
If
they
shall
be
found
consonant
to
the
Diuine
word
and
conformable
to
the
Cannons
and
Ordinances
of
our
Church
:
If
they
haue
been
lawfully
allowed
of
by
those
in
Authority
,
and
may
appeare
to
aduance
the
practise
of
Piety
to
Gods
honour
,
and
to
maintaine
those
Rites
only
,
which
were
agreed
vpon
,
and
established
by
our
Parliaments
,
Prouinciall
Synodes
,
Nationall
Counsels
,
and
the
Authority
of
the
State
And
yf
,
moreouer
,
those
who
scandalize
&
oppose
the
sayd
Hymns
,
may
be
probably
suspected
(
yf
not
prooued
)
to
haue
eyther
priuate
malice
and
designes
in
their
opposition
,
or
to
be
some
of
those
who
are
trou
blesome
and
ill
affected
to
the
gouernment
of
our
Church
:
Then
let
their
vnchristian
behauiours
towards
Authoritey
,
and
their
vncivell
daeling
with
me
,
be
accordingly
considered
on
.
If
those
Observations
which
our
Church
commandeth
were
as
vnprofitable
or
superstitions
,
as
some
of
that
ignorant
Rable
seeme
to
conceaue
:
Yet
I
hauing
followed
the
steps
of
Authority
,
&
prepared
meanes
to
make
those
Obseruations
the
more
edifying
for
the
common
people
,
methinks
I
might
hope
for
better
things
,
then
to
be
abused
for
my
labour
and
expenses
.
But
seeing
the
Church
hath
by
those
obseruations
,
wisely
and
pyously
,
so
distributed
the
commemoration
of
the
principall
mysteries
of
Religeon
,
that
they
may
be
once
throughout
euery
yeare
presented
to
publike
consideration
;
since
the
temporall
blessings
of
euery
season
are
therby
the
better
&
the
oftner
tendred
to
our
thankfull
Remembrances
,
as
well
as
those
eternall
Priueledges
which
we
receaue
by
the
Incarnation
,
Natiuitie
,
Passion
,
Resurrection
,
and
Ascention
of
our
hlessed
Redeemer
,
and
the
perticuler
misteries
of
his
holy-Saintes
and
Angells
:
And
since
I
haue
by
Gods
assistance
found
out
,
&
by
Authoritie
divulged
those
helpes
whereby
the
Churches
pious
intent
in
those
Ordinances
,
may
be
the
more
vulgerly
vnderstood
&
practised
,
both
to
her
honour
and
the
glory
of
God
;
why
should
not
I
be
defended
,
against
the
malitious
&
irreligeous
combinations
and
practises
of
my
Aduersaris
?
Nay
,
why
am
I
rather
giuen
vp
into
their
powre
,
to
be
traduced
&
abused
for
that
,
which
in
the
opinion
of
all
good
men
,
ought
to
haue
procured
me
more
esteeme
?
So
farr
am
I
from
insinuating
any
popish
Superstition
among
the
people
,
that
I
haue
vindicated
all
our
Solemnities
f●…om
those
imputations
which
ignorant
men
haue
that
way
,
cast
vpon
them
;
by
setting
downe
their
primatiue
vse
,
freed
from
the
Corruption
of
the
later
Ages
:
and
in
such
manner
as
they
are
obserued
by
the
Church
of
England
,
who
imposeth
them
,
not
as
essentially
pertaining
to
Religeon
,
but
as
accidentally
helpefull
towarde
the
performance
of
those
exercises
which
are
necessary
to
saluation
.
For
,
whosoeuer
can
propose
to
himselfe
any
other
warrantable
meanes
,
which
in
his
judgement
may
be
more
profitable
to
his
perticuler
disposition
,
to
stir
him
vp
,
and
continue
him
in
the
practise
of
his
Christian
duties
:
He
may
(
as
I
beleeue
)
freely
make
vse
of
them
,
and
with
good
commeodation
;
prouided
▪
he
neyther
tye
the
Generality
to
his
private
Rules
,
nor
presnmptuously
neglect
or
contemne
the
alowed
Church
discipline
,
to
the
dishonor
of
Authority
,
and
the
offence
of
his
weake
Brethren
.
Because
(
in
my
vnderstanding
)
humane
Traditions
&
obseruations
discreetly
established
in
the
Church
,
do
(
in
our
highway
to
Heaven
)
resemble
those
markes
which
charitable
and
skilfull
Seam●…n
haue
anciently
sett
vp
to
discouer
dangerous
passages
,
and
a
safe
Channell
to
vnskilfull
Mariners
.
If
any
man
suppose
himselfe
so
good
a
Pilot
,
that
by
his
industry
and
continuall
sounding
▪
he
can
bring
his
Barke
to
a
safe
Roade
,
without
heeding
the
common
obseruations
:
Or
yf
his
Vessell
draw
so
little
water
that
by
sayling
ouer
those
Barrs
(
vpon
which
others
most
commonly
strike
)
he
can
finde
a
neerer
course
into
the
Harbour
;
hee
may
steere
by
his
owne
Compasse
.
But
,
if
he
shall
therevpon
deface
those
auncient
Beacons
,
which
meaner
Arts-men
haue
neede
of
,
or
seeke
to
make
contemptible
those
helpes
which
he
himselfe
was
(
yt
may
be
)
directed
and
preserued
by
in
his
tymes
of
lesse
experience
,
wee
may
justly
taxe
him
of
sacriledge
and
impiety
.
And
the
same
taxation
are
they
worthy
of
,
who
in
their
pilgrimage
to
the
spirituall
Canaan
dispise
and
seeke
to
abolish
those
generall
furtherances
,
which
theire
wiser
Forefathers
had
prouided
,
because
they
haue
in
their
owne
imagination
)
found
out
some
discipline
fitter
for
their
particuler
inclinations
.
Let
them
vse
what
Christian
aduantage
they
can
in
their
priuate
practise
of
pietie
;
but
let
them
not
measure
the
Church
by
their
cubite
,
nor
judge
the
profitablenes
of
her
Discipline
by
the
abuses
or
misinterpretations
of
ignorant
Detractors
.
For
,
if
those
who
fancie
most
perfection
in
their
priuate
rule
of
life
,
had
at
first
wanted
those
helpes
,
remembrances
,
and
publique
meanes
of
instruction
,
which
were
tendred
them
by
the
Church
;
they
had
eyther
wandred
,
perhaps
,
after
vncertaine
pathes
,
or
neglected
to
proceed
at
all
in
their
Spirituall
Iourney
.
Our
holy
Mother
the
Church
,
hath
many
Children
of
diuers
tempers
and
constitutions
,
and
as
the
Maister
of
a
great
Feast
prouideth
so
,
that
euery
Guest
may
finde
some
what
to
agree
with
his
appetite
;
So
Gods
Church
hath
established
such
discipline
for
her
children
,
that
euery
one
may
finde
that
which
accordes
with
their
capacities
and
inclinations
.
As
,
therefore
,
it
were
madnesse
,
for
a
Guest
to
rayle
at
his
friends
Banquet
,
because
he
saw
there
many
moe
varieries
than
he
listed
to
seed
on
;
or
some
wholesome
meates
,
which
his
stomack
loathed
through
his
owne
default
:
And
as
it
were
barbarous
inhumanity
in
him
that
had
learned
the
way
through
an
obscure
Desert
,
by
heapes
of
stone
raised
by
his
Predecessours
,
to
pull
downe
those
marks
because
he
imagins
that
he
hath
found
a
passage
without
them
.
So
,
it
is
monstrous
impiety
in
them
who
seeke
either
to
take
away
or
make
contemptible
,
those
Chaistian
helpes
whereby
others
may
be
assisted
,
&
by
which
they
themselues
were
at
first
initiated
;
because
forsooth
they
finde
a
distast
through
their
owne
distemper
,
or
a
possibillity
of
doeing
well
without
them
▪
through
their
owne
ouerweening
conceit
:
And
it
is
the
greate
mercy
of
God
,
if
their
presumption
carry
them
not
into
the
gyddy
and
vncertayne
pathes
of
perdition
.
I
wish
hartily
that
those
weake
members
of
our
Church
,
who
are
ignorantly
offended
at
her
Disciplines
(
because
they
knowe
not
the
Christian
vse
of
them
)
would
with
more
sincerity
,
take
those
things
into
their
consideration
,
&
weigh
how
farr
our
Solemnityes
are
from
that
superstition
wherof
their
blinde
guides
accuse
them
;
how
different
from
popish
Obseruations
,
&
how
greate
an
offence
it
is
to
scandalize
that
Authority
whereunto
they
ought
to
be
obedient
in
euery
thing
,
not
repugning
the
sacred
word
.
And
if
they
be
not
hardned
in
their
malice
)
I
would
those
Stationers
also
,
who
by
falsly
accusing
my
Hymnes
of
blasphemy
and
superstition
(
haue
drawne
many
of
that
censorious
generation
,
to
help
them
clamor
against
what
they
haue
not
yet
perused
)
would
make
more
conscience
of
their
actions
,
&
not
worke
vpon
the
credulity
of
their
customers
,
to
the
generall
disparagment
of
that
booke
which
they
ought
rather
to
haue
aduanced
.
But
I
feare
I
wish
an
impossibility
on
the
Stationers
behalfe
.
For
,
they
haue
so
long
,
&
so
vnciuelly
,
resisted
those
Himnes
which
haue
been
published
for
helpes
to
deuotion
;
that
it
may
be
doubted
they
will
be
now
ashamed
to
speake
well
of
them
,
how
profitable
soeuer
they
be
approued
▪
Nor
will
yt
be
much
materiall
(
I
thinke
)
ere
long
,
whether
those
who
haue
been
my
Detractors
,
praise
or
discommend
.
For
,
I
am
perswaded
they
will
make
their
dispositions
so
well
knowne
after
a
while
,
that
no
man
of
vnderstanding
wil
regard
what
they
speake
.
As
yet
,
their
true
qualitey
is
not
fully
discouered
;
&
therefore
yf
any
should
happen
to
ouer-heare
them
at
their
Goose-nest
behind
Saint
Nicholas
Shambles
;
Or
when
a
knot
of
them
hath
gotten
a
Cuntrey-Chapman
,
Citty-Customer
,
or
new
flowne
Academick
,
to
some
Drincking-schoole
,
within
the
compasse
of
their
verge
;
yt
would
deceaue
a
common
iudgement
to
obserue
what
grauitey
,
zeale
,
and
learning
,
some
of
them
will
consume
in
rayling
vpon
my
Hymnes
.
One
,
as
if
he
had
been
Register
,
or
Liberary-keeper
to
all
the
primitiue
Churches
,
vndertakes
to
tell
his
Auditory
,
that
no
such
thing
had
been
published
in
the
first
300
yeares
after
Christ
:
As
if
that
had
bene
to
any
purpose
.
A
second
,
out
of
his
deepe
vnderstanding
in
such
language
,
dares
pronounce
some
of
my
expressions
obsceane
.
A
third
,
by
conuersing
with
the
Titles
of
Bookes
only
(
for
their
insides
he
was
neuer
acquainted
withall
)
is
become
so
learned
that
he
●…yndes
himselfe
impudent
enough
to
accuse
me
of
blasphemy
.
A
fourth
(
iustly
suspecting
that
his
owne
opinion
will
add
no
credit
to
his
foolish
invectiues
)
belyes
some
Reuerend
customer
of
his
.
or
brings
the
Authority
of
some
of
those
Worshipfull
censurers
,
who
vpon
the
Stationers
bare
credite
,
vse
to
condemne
Bookes
before
they
reade
them
.
Yea
,
so
shamefully
will
some
of
them
aver
&
obiect
,
whatsoeuer
they
can
imagine
will
disparage
my
Labour
;
and
with
such
counterfeite
shewes
of
pittying
me
,
and
making
a
Religions
conscience
of
their
words
,
that
such
as
know
neyther
of
vs
,
would
thinke
them
the
very
quintessence
of
Sincerity
,
and
me
some
irreligious
Scribler
,
who
cared
not
what
I
published
for
mine
owne
aduantage
.
But
,
that
whereby
they
hope
to
work
me
farthest
out
of
good
opinion
,
is
my
Hymne
for
Saint
Georges
day
.
Yea
,
the
bare
obiecting
of
that
,
hath
made
many
(
who
passe
for
wiser
men
then
they
prooue
)
to
condemne
the
same
before
tryall
.
And
(
as
if
that
Hymne
could
haue
beene
to
no
purpose
but
to
mainetaine
a
Popish
and
superstitious
obseruation
)
they
rashly
make
yt
an
occasion
of
misconstering
all
the
rest
;
and
so
malitiously
vilify
my
honoring
the
solennity
of
that
day
with
a
Hymne
,
as
yf
they
had
been
of
that
Dragons
confederacie
,
for
whose
ouerthrow
yt
praiseth
God
.
I
know
no
cause
there
is
giuen
of
such
dislike
.
For
,
I
haue
ascribed
no
Diuine
honor
to
any
creature
in
that
Hymne
,
nor
appropriated
it
to
that
Martyr
ignorantly
reputed
the
tutelary
saint
of
this
Kingdome
,
and
by
some
heretofore
superstitiously
inuoked
in
warlike
incounters
;
Nor
haue
I
sorted
the
Festiuall
of
Saint
George
among
the
solemnities
appointed
by
the
Church
,
but
mentioned
the
same
as
an
Obseruation
set
apart
by
the
State
onely
;
as
are
the
first
dayes
of
Kings
raignes
.
And
though
my
Hymne
prepared
for
that
Solemnitey
▪
is
numbred
among
the
Hymnes
of
the
congregation
,
because
it
is
composed
as
personating
many
:
Neuerthelesse
,
euen
that
&
all
the
rest
,
were
by
me
intended
for
paterns
to
assist
or
direct
priuate
deuotions
▪
rather
then
to
be
imposed
for
sett
formes
which
I
thought
worthy
to
be
vsed
in
our
publike
Assemblies
.
Were
the
obseruation
of
Saint
Georges
feast
,
as
popish
an
limpertinēt
,
as
some
of
my
traducers
ignorantly
and
irreuerently
conceiue
:
yet
since
I
neither
inuented
it
nor
haue
power
to
abolish
the
same
,
why
should
I
be
blamed
,
for
shewing
with
what
meditations
it
may
be
the
more
appleyd
to
Gods
glory
,
and
redound
to
the
greater
honor
and
edification
of
those
who
are
attendants
on
that
solemnity
?
Seeing
that
place
of
Saint
Paul
which
counselleth
that
we
should
direct
all
our
Actions
to
the
glory
of
God
,
may
be
my
warrant
for
so
do●…
ing
,
without
wresting
the
meaning
of
the
Text.
For
,
that
Hymne
together
(
with
a
Preface
shewing
the
true
vse
thereof
,
&
whome
we
vnderstood
by
Saint
George
)
I
inserted
among
the
rest
,
for
those
purposes
.
First
,
to
giue
men
occasion
of
spirituall
meditations
in
their
ciuill
Tryumphs
,
&
to
remember
them
to
honor
God
in
those
Solemnities
,
wherein
he
hath
honored
them
,
with
place
&
Title
aboue
others
.
Secondly
,
that
the
order
of
Saint
George
,
being
one
of
the
most
honorable
orders
of
christian
knighthood
throughout
the
world
;
Instituted
to
the
prayse
of
God
,
&
(
as
I
take
it
)
our
highest
Title
of
honour
,
might
haue
more
high
esteeme
then
among
some
it
findeth
.
And
lastly
,
that
such
whoe
are
apte
to
misdeeme
of
those
thinges
whose
Reasons
and
true
purposes
they
know
not
,
might
be
more
sparing
in
their
censures
,
and
not
conceiue
(
as
many
ignorantly
doe
)
that
our
State
acknowledgeth
any
other
Patron
,
then
that
champyon
of
the
holy
catholike
church
,
by
whome
the
great
Dragon
and
his
Angels
were
ouercome
.
Euen
those
were
my
christian
intentions
in
publishing
that
Hymne
among
the
rest
;
which
I
offer
to
be
censured
by
your
RRces
,
whether
there
be
iust
occasion
of
scandall
giuen
thereby
to
others
,
or
of
any
such
reprooses
as
my
Traducers
haue
bestowed
on
me
.
If
it
be
so
;
let
that
Hymne
bedivorced
from
the
rest
in
all
future
impressions
.
But
yf
it
be
otherwise
,
and
that
in
your
opinions
it
tendeth
rather
to
Gods
glory
,
and
the
honour
of
the
State
;
I
doubt
not
but
God
and
that
Noble
order
,
(
of
whose
Solemnities
I
haue
declared
the
right
vse
)
will
deliuer
me
from
that
many-headed
monster
,
which
hath
Dragon
like
persecuted
the
honorer
and
interpreter
of
their
mistery
.
But
,
Saint
George
being
receaued
for
a
Martyr
,
and
the
order
called
after
that
Name
,
being
at
first
founded
vpon
a
very
meane
occasion
;
some
are
of
opinion
that
there
was
neyther
any
such
Allegory
vnderstood
,
or
to
be
vnderstood
,
in
the
story
of
Saint
George
,
as
I
haue
affirmed
,
nor
any
thing
directly
intended
to
the
glory
of
God
in
the
so
lemnization
of
that
day
:
And
vpon
this
false
ground
,
they
improperley
conclude
,
that
I
haue
neyther
warrant
for
shaddowing
the
true
Cham
pion
of
the
Church
vnder
that
Name
,
nor
ground
for
applying
that
solemnity
to
so
Christian
a
pur
pose
.
That
there
was
George
a
Martyr
wee
may
be
leeue
,
but
that
euer
he
slewe
a
Dragon
&
delivered
a
Lady
(
as
the
vulger
story
of
saint
George
relates
the
same
)
there
is
noe
probable
testimonie
:
Therefore
yt
hath
bene
generally
vnderstood
as
an
Allegoricall
expression
of
the
churches
deliuerance
from
the
powre
of
Sathan
.
And
that
the
Title
of
saint
George
may
bee
allegorically
imposed
vpon
our
spirituall
Patron
without
iust
exception
,
I
haue
declared
in
my
preface
before
the
Hymne
of
saint
George
his
Day
,
by
an
argument
drawne
from
the
greater
.
For
,
the
Father
being
by
the
Aevangelist
called
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
person
,
doubtles
,
who
is
inferior
touching
the
manhood
may
in
some
respects
,
be
called
by
the
same
Name
without
irreuerence
.
Or
if
this
be
not
sufficient
,
it
may
be
inferred
also
by
an
argument
from
the
lesse
.
For
,
if
Iesus
Christ
be
termed
a
Lambe
,
a
Lyon
,
or
by
the
Nams
of
creatures
inferior
to
those
,
as
a
Doue
,
a
Way
,
a
Vine
,
&c
,
sure
we
may
then
,
without
exception
,
entitle
him
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
giue
him
such
attributes
or
appellations
,
as
are
proper
to
creatures
of
a
higher
nature
;
if
they
may
with
any
warrant
of
the
holy
Text
,
serue
to
expresse
him
the
better
to
our
apprehensions
.
Soe
ignorantly
deuoute
were
those
tymes
in
which
the
Order
of
Saint
George
was
first
instituted
,
that
it
may
be
some
mistook
our
Patron
.
Yet
none
can
peremptorily
affirm
that
it
was
any
created
Saint
whom
our
Fore
fathers
first
chose
to
bee
the
Gardian
of
this
Kingdome
,
&
honored
by
the
Name
of
Saint
George
,
much
lesse
can
they
affirme
that
it
was
George
the
Martyr
.
For
,
if
they
had
aymed
at
a
creature
for
their
Patron
,
it
is
likely
they
would
haue
chosen
one
of
the
blessed
Patriarcks
or
Apostles
,
as
Scotland
,
Spaine
,
&
other
Nations
did
;
or
one
of
their
owne
contry
Saints
,
as
in
Ireland
and
France
;
and
not
haue
committed
themselues
to
a
stranger-saint
who
,
perhaps
,
neuer
heard
of
this
Realme
;
and
of
whose
being
,
or
holynesse
they
haue
no
certainty
.
Otherwise
they
were
either
much
distrest
for
a
Sainte
,
or
very
indifferent
to
whose
patronage
they
committed
themselues
.
Our
predicessors
desiring
a
tutelary
Saint
for
this
kingdome
,
according
to
the
superstition
of
their
neighboring
Cuntrys
(
as
the
Children
of
Israel
longed
for
a
King
after
the
manner
of
other
Nations
)
It
may
be
,
that
it
pleased
God
,
(
prouiding
better
then
they
themselves
desired
)
to
mooue
them
to
make
choyce
of
a
Name
,
long
since
attributed
to
God
himselfe
;
which
being
considered
according
to
that
allegoricall
story
aunciently
ascribed
therevnto
(
&
vsually
interpreted
to
meane
the
Champion
of
the
Churcb
)
could
not
certainely
be
applyed
to
the
person
of
any
inferior
Saint
.
And
so
,
they
honored
in
their
solemnity
the
true
Deitie
,
though
it
were
,
perhapps
,
(
till
the
light
of
the
gospell
begann
to
shine
clearer
)
as
ignorantly
as
the
Athenians
did
,
when
they
sacrifized
therevnto
,
vpon
that
Alter
which
they
inscribed
,
TO
THE
VNKNOWNE
GOD.
For
the
vulger
history
of
Saint
George
,
is
in
the
litterall
sence
so
improbable
,
so
hyperboicall
,
&
so
voyd
of
testimony
:
And
in
the
Allegoricall
sence
so
proper
;
so
auntiently
receaued
,
So
aluding
to
the
Victory
of
Saint
Michael
;
&
that
name
of
George
,
aunciently
made
the
patron
of
soe
many
Christian
Cuntryes
,
&
Honorable
Orders
of
kingthood
,
that
I
am
perswaded
it
siginfied
no
lesse
person
then
he
that
is
said
to
make
warr
with
the
Dragon
in
the
Revelation
of
Saint
Iohn
.
But
(
whomsoeuer
former
Ages
vnderstood
by
St.
George
)
the
Soueraignes
of
that
Order
who
were
since
the
Reformation
of
Religeon
(
&
who
by
the
lawes
of
that
fellowship
are
to
resolue
all
doubtfull
questions
concerning
their
Order
)
haue
long
since
(
as
I
am
informed
)
declared
that
by
Saint
George
they
vnderstand
no
other
Patron
then
he
to
whose
praise
I
haue
directed
my
Hymne
.
Yet
some
will
not
allow
the
Solemnities
of
that
day
to
be
esteemed
so
reverend
,
nor
the
Order
of
St.
George
to
be
so
Christian
an
Institution
as
I
account
it
,
by
reason
of
that
occasion
wherevpon
it
is
said
to
haue
bene
first
inuented
.
As
if
the
almighty
prouidence
did
neuer
turne
mens
vaine
purposes
,
to
become
beyond
their
owne
meaning
the
occasion
of
that
which
is
of
great
consequence
.
Yes
verely
.
When
Pharohs
daughter
went
to
fetch
but
an
idle
walke
,
shee
brought
home
Moses
the
Deliuerer
of
his
Brethren
:
when
Saul
went
to
seeke
Asses
,
he
found
a
Kingdome
;
&
when
Agrippa
heard
St.
Paul
out
of
curiosity
only
,
he
was
made
almost
a
Christian.
So
,
the
first
founder
of
that
Honorable
Order
,
did
intend
a
while
(
it
may
be
)
to
erect
some
Title
of
honor
sutable
to
his
first
apprehension
.
But
considering
better
thereupon
,
&
aduising
with
his
graue
Counsell
how
to
establish
that
which
might
redound
most
to
his
honor
;
he
raised
his
purposes
farr
aboue
the
first
designe
,
&
instituted
a
new
Brotherhood
of
Christian
Knights
;
which
he
&
his
Nobles
entred
into
,
&
recommended
to
posterity
,
to
be
professed
&
continued
to
the
praise
of
God
almighty
;
the
honor
of
the
holy
Church
militant
;
&
the
encrease
&
confirmation
of
brotherly
loue
among
his
Peeres
:
As
their
Records
(
&
the
Divine
exercices
vsed
in
the
Church
belonging
to
their
order
)
do
apparantly
shew
.
Yea
,
they
voluntarily
oblige
themselues
to
the
obseruation
of
so
many
pious
Ordinances
&
Resolutions
(
which
are
the
conditions
of
their
Order
)
that
it
testifies
much
piety
in
the
first
Founders
,
occasioneth
much
vertuous
emulation
in
the
princely
Brotherhood
,
&
is
for
these
Reasons
become
so
renouned
,
that
it
hath
bene
desired
&
receaued
,
by
the
greatest
Kings
&
Princes
of
Christendome
,
as
one
of
the
most
Christean
,
&
most
honorable
Orders
of
Kinghthood
in
the
world
.
And
to
shew
that
those
things
which
are
worthy
on
themselues
are
not
thought
any
whitt
disparaged
among
wisemen
(
because
they
haue
sprung
from
meane
occasion
)
the
Soueraigne
&
fellowshipp
of
this
excellent
Brotherhood
(
knowing
it
no
shame
to
retaine
the
remebrance
of
that
which
first
occasioned
this
institution
)
haue
called
themselues
Knights
of
S.
Georg
&
of
the
Garter
.
Yet
as
if
they
foresaw
alsoe
,
that
some
foolish
or
malitious
detractors
would
from
thence
take
aduantage
,
to
endeauor
how
they
might
disparage
,
their
honorable
Fraternitey
,
they
haue
for
their
Impreza
these
words
imbroydered
vpon
a
litle
Belt
or
Garter
;
HONI
SOIT
QVI
MALY
PENSE
,
which
they
weare
as
in
reproofe
&
contempt
,
of
all
evill
&
sinister
imaginations
.
I
am
sorry
there
should
haue
bene
any
necessity
of
speaking
thus
much
,
in
defence
of
that
which
is
so
apparantly
commendable
;
but
,
since
the
malice
&
ignorance
of
some
hath
giuen
the
occasion
,
I
hope
,
neither
the
Kings
Majestie
the
Soueraigne
of
that
most
Honorable
Order
here
mentioned
,
nor
any
member
thereof
will
take
it
amise
,
that
out
of
my
zeal
to
their
honor
I
haue
spoken
according
to
my
simple
vnderstanding
in
a
matter
of
such
consequence
.
For
,
while
it
is
permitted
,
that
divine
Mysteryes
&
those
things
which
concerne
euen
to
the
honor
of
God
Almighty
,
may
be
defended
by
the
meanest
of
his
servants
,
when
his
adversaries
haue
made
them
disputable
;
I
trust
it
shal
be
excusable
for
me
,
to
exprese
my
good
opinion
of
this
Mystery
of
State
(
which
by
some
is
not
so
rightly
conceaued
of
as
in
my
Iudgment
it
ought
to
be
)
especially
seeing
we
haue
had
often
experience
that
truth
&
honorable
Actions
,
become
the
more
confirmed
&
the
more
glorious
,
by
being
drawne
into
question
.
I
haue
now
delieuered
vnto
your
RRces
the
reason
of
those
things
for
which
I
&
my
Booke
of
Hymnes
haue
bene
abused
&
miscensured
by
the
Stationers
▪
&
their
Confederates
;
humbly
desiring
your
Fatherhoods
,
that
if
you
perceaue
any
good
in
what
I
haue
said
or
done
,
or
any
hope
of
makeing
me
such
a
one
as
I
desire
to
approoue
my selfe
,
that
you
would
be
pleased
to
giue
your
approbation
to
that
which
is
well
;
&
instruct
me
wherein
I
might
be
made
better
.
If
not
for
my
sake
,
yet
for
that
truthes
sake
which
you
your
selues
professe
,
&
for
the
honor
of
that
devotion
which
(
for
ought
you
knowe
)
I
haue
truly
sought
to
advance
let
not
faulse
imputations
or
the
scandalls
of
the
malitious
(
which
euen
the
best
men
were
euer
subject
vnto
)
preiudice
that
among
you
,
which
I
haue
offred
vp
vnto
God
;
or
loose
me
any
of
your
good
opineons
,
vntill
you
shall
see
more
apparant
cause
to
condemne
me
.
For
,
since
God
hath
bene
so
mercifull
vnto
me
,
to
couer
all
my
transgressions
in
such
manner
that
none
cann
iustly
accuse
me
of
any
scandalous
matter
,
in
all
my
life
tyme
why
should
men
be
so
cruell
,
as
to
seeke
my
disparagment
by
my
best
endeavor
?
Let
not
my
youth
(
or
the
want
of
that
calling
which
I
dare
not
vsurpe
)
make
me
or
my
labors
the
more
contemptable
to
your
Wisdomes
;
nor
let
the
vniust
Rumors
which
the
Deceaver
hath
provoked
my
traducers
to
divulge
,
make
those
meditations
seeme
vnhallowed
,
which
I
haue
prepared
for
the
honor
of
God
.
For
,
if
the
Devil
had
not
perceaued
them
somewhat
tending
to
the
Almighties
praise
,
doubtles
,
he
&
his
Instruments
would
haue
suffred
them
to
passe
as
quietly
,
as
those
vaine
inventions
do
,
which
he
inspires
;
&
yt
would
haue
bene
no
more
disparagment
to
me
,
to
haue
bene
thought
subject
to
some
imperfections
,
then
it
is
to
other
men
;
nor
had
my
Life
,
my
lines
,
my
habit
,
my
words
,
&
my
very
thoughts
bene
pried
into
&
censured
,
as
they
haue
bene
:
Which
(
liuing
were
I
doe
,
so
much
knowne
as
I
am
,
and
the
world
being
so
malitious
as
it
is
)
might
giue
occasion
to
discouer
some
spotts
in
a
fayrer
garment
then
mine
.
I
protest
before
the
searcher
of
all
hearts
,
that
I
am
not
carefull
to
make
this
Apology
,
or
to
beseech
your
good
opinion
,
so
much
to
preserue
mine
owne
personall
esteeme
,
as
to
prouide
that
virtue
and
deuotion
might
not
be
hindred
or
scandalized
through
me
or
my
deprauers
.
Yet
am
I
neither
insensible
of
my
temporall
repute
,
nor
so
desirous
of
maintaining
it
,
as
if
I
should
droupe
without
it
;
or
thought
the
honor
of
good
studyes
might
not
be
preserued
without
mine
.
For
,
I
know
truth
shall
prevaile
though
I
perish
;
and
to
the
praise
of
God
(
&
out
of
my
confidence
in
his
loue
)
be
it
spoken
,
I
am
perswaded
,
for
mine
owne
part
,
that
all
the
world
shall
not
haue
powre
to
turne
me
out
of
that
course
,
which
he
hath
set
me
into
:
but
rather
,
make
me
relish
my
happinesse
the
better
by
their
disturbance
,
&
enable
me
in
due
time
to
despise
,
most
perfectly
those
vaine
applauses
&
encouragments
,
whereby
my
weakenesse
doth
,
as
yet
,
require
to
be
otherwhile
supported
.
And
,
it
may
be
those
who
shall
liue
in
the
next
Age
(
howeuer
I
am
now
thought
of
)
will
wonder
how
the
Deuill
could
find
out
a
Company
shameles
enough
to
oppose
and
dispaurage
me
in
soe
vnchristian
a
manner
,
as
my
Adversaries
do
.
For
,
they
haue
not
only
offred
me
those
injuries
,
afore
mentioned
,
and
many
other
which
humanity
forbidds
;
but
exercised
their
tongues
also
,
so
scurrilously
;
so
vnciuelly
,
and
so
vniustly
to
the
disgrace
of
my
personn
,
that
had
I
not
long
tyme
envred
my selfe
to
the
barking
of
Doggs
,
and
the
snarling
of
such
Beasts
,
I
had
bene
much
out
of
patience
.
If
I
might
not
be
thought
to
misapply
the
text
,
(
as
I
thinke
I
should
not
)
there
is
scarce
one
passage
in
the
Psalmes
of
blessed
Dauid
,
concerning
the
combinations
&
practises
of
a
malitious
multitude
,
but
I
haue
had
occasion
in
a
literall
sence
to
apply
the
same
to
my
Aduersaries
For
,
they
haue
rewarded
me
euill
for
good
,
and
layd
things
to
my
charge
which
I
knew
not
.
They
haue
priuely
laid
netts
to
ensnate
me
without
a
cause
.
They
haue
reviled
me
all
the
day
long
,
are
madd
vpon
me
,
and
sworne
together
against
me
.
Like
Oxen
and
fatt
Bulls
they
haue
enclosed
me
,
grind
at
me
like
dogs
round
about
the
Citty
;
&
when
I
sound
the
words
of
their
mouthes
as
soft
as
butter
,
there
was
warr
in
their
hearts
.
They
hold
all
together
,
keepe
themselues
close
,
&
marke
my
stepps
▪
when
they
see
me
,
they
flatter
,
speake
lyes
,
&
dissemble
with
their
double
heart
.
They
are
sett
on
fyre
,
they
haue
whett
their
tongues
like
swords
;
their
teeth
are
speares
&
arrows
,
their
lipps
speake
deceit
,
&
their
mouth
is
full
of
●…urfing
and
bitternesse
,
they
haue
persecuted
me
when
I
was
smitten
,
euen
in
my
Aduersity
they
reioyced
,
&
gathered
themselues
together
against
me
,
They
whisper
and
take
counsell
to
my
hurt
.
The
drunkards
among
them
haue
made
songes
on
me
;
yea
the
very
abjects
haue
assembled
&
made
mowes
at
me
,
&
so
nearely
imitated
that
crew
of
whom
the
Psalmist
complaineth
,
that
if
my
Hymnes
were
as
full
of
that
good
spirit
which
inspired
David
,
as
my
Adversaryes
seeme
to
be
of
that
evill
spirit
which
possessed
his
enimies
,
my
Songes
might
well
haue
passed
whithout
exception
.
But
,
Gods
will
be
done
,
For
;
I
know
he
will
in
the
best
opportunity
,
deliuer
me
from
those
oppressors
.
I
haue
bene
hithèrto
as
a
deafe
man
to
all
they
haue
obiected
,
because
I
knew
it
was
gods
pleasure
,
that
I
should
be
afflicted
for
the
evill
which
is
in
my
worke
that
he
might
the
more
comfort
me
,
for
that
which
his
goodnesse
hath
made
good
in
me
.
And
I
had
bene
longer
silent
in
their
reproofe
,
but
that
my
Adversaries
haue
,
perhapps
,
bene
permitted
soe
much
&
soe
foolishly
to
prouoke
me
,
that
those
many
iniuryes
they
haue
offred
others
,
might
be
called
into
question
by
this
meanes
,
for
the
generall
good
.
yea
paradventure
they
haue
giuen
this
occasion
,
that
their
owne
words
might
make
them
fall
.
whether
it
be
so
or
not
,
sure
I
am
to
be
deliuered
from
them
,
when
my
suffrings
are
compleat
.
He
that
hath
showne
me
troubles
will
(
as
he
hath
often
done
)
now
also
deliver
me
.
Euen
he
will
comfort
me
for
those
yeares
wherein
he
hath
afflicted
me
;
because
I
haue
placed
my
hope
only
on
him
.
Yea
,
he
will
shew
me
some
token
for
good
,
that
such
as
haue
hated
me
may
be
ashamed
,
&
that
those
who
loue
me
may
praise
his
name
for
my
cause
;
In
which
assurance
,
I
will
rest
,
expecting
my
reward
from
aboue
the
Sunne
.
For
,
I
haue
with
Salomon
obserued
and
seene
that
here
vnder
the
Sunne
the
race
is
not
to
the
swift
,
nor
the
batle
to
the
stronge
,
nor
bread
to
the
wise
,
nor
riches
to
men
of
vnderstanding
,
nor
favor
to
men
of
knowledge
;
but
tyme
&
chance
commeth
to
them
all
.
Eccl.
9.
11.
And
,
I
hope
that
your
RRces
,
whom
as
the
Ambassodors
,
&
true
Ministers
of
God
I
haue
euer
honored
,
loued
,
&
obeyed
,
will
in
what
you
may
be
as
helpefull
in
the
setling
of
my
ontward
peace
,
as
your
Instructions
haue
bene
to
beget
in
me
an
inward
contentment
.
That
,
which
hath
bene
censured
vndiscreet
in
my
former
studyes
was
punished
seuerely
:
let
not
that
also
,
which
the
King
&
Authority
approoues
commendable
,
be
made
preiuditiall
vnto
me
.
For
,
which
way
then
shall
I
employ
my selfe
without
disadvantage
?
Although
I
grudge
not
that
men
addicted
to
the
most
vaine
exercizes
,
cann
reap
profitt
&
regard
;
Yet
,
methinks
,
it
is
somewhat
vnequall
that
he
who
hath
bestowed
his
tyme
,
his
paines
,
&
his
fortunes
in
better
studyes
,
should
be
altogether
denyed
his
labor
for
his
travell
:
Or
which
is
worse
,
suffer
for
his
good
intentions
;
&
because
he
hath
endeauored
more
then
a
hundred
,
bee
abused
more
then
a
thousand
.
I
would
it
were
otherwise
,
for
their
sakes
,
who
haue
but
begun
to
tast
the
comfort
&
sweetnesse
of
attempting
good
things
;
that
none
of
those
may
be
discouraged
(
through
my
hard
vsage
)
who
haue
in
the
prime
of
their
youth
,
forborne
their
pleasures
,
&
forsaken
the
ordinary
pathes
of
preferment
,
to
prosecute
that
,
which
may
redound
as
well
to
the
profit
of
others
,
as
to
their
owne
benefite
.
And
I
would
to
god
,
that
such
as
ought
to
cherish
&
direct
those
,
who
desire
to
spend
their
tyme
&
best
faculties
in
the
seruice
of
God
,
would
not
so
enuiously
carpe
at
honest
parformances
,
as
many
do
,
when
their
humor
is
not
fitted
in
euery
perticuler
:
Perhapps
alsoe
,
when
those
perticulers
were
approoued
of
,
by
wisermen
.
When
an
Archer
hath
shott
,
it
is
aneasy
&
an
ordinary
matter
for
the
foolish
lookers
on
,
to
say
he
hath
mist
thus
,
or
thus
much
of
the
marke
;
but
giue
them
the
Bow
,
&
it
will
soone
appeare
that
they
are
better
at
finding
fault
with
others
,
then
in
doing
well
themselues
.
Against
such
as
these
;
I
haue
had
some
cause
to
complaine
,
not
only
among
the
Stationers
,
but
(
I
am
sorry
I
should
haue
reason
to
speake
it
)
some
,
euen
of
the
Cleargy
,
are
that
way
blame
worthy
;
&
haue
(
as
I
am
credibly
informed
)
so
friuelously
&
so
inuiriously
objected
against
my
Hymnes
;
that
their
owne
freinds
,
&
hearers
haue
discouered
that
it
was
the
Author
rather
then
his
Booke
which
they
affected
not
.
For
,
al
they
could
say
being
vrged
,
to
expresse
perticuler
exceptions
,
was
this
,
that
I
was
no
Divine
;
And
,
it
hath
appeared
to
the
iust
disparagment
of
some
among
them
,
that
they
had
neuer
so
much
as
handled
the
booke
they
disapprooued
.
Whence
should
this
proceed
,
but
from
selfe
corruption
,
&
the
basest
enuy
?
And
what
flesh
&
blood
could
endure
it
,
with
silence
?
The
most
eminent
,
the
most
learned
,
the
most
devout
,
&
the
most
approoued
of
our
Devines
,
haue
thought
it
worthy
praising
God
,
for
to
see
a
man
of
my
quality
exercize
his
faculty
that
way
.
Some
of
the
most
reuerend
of
them
,
haue
sought
me
out
,
&
honored
me
for
it
,
with
more
respect
then
I
find
my selfe
worthy
of
;
that
they
might
encourage
me
in
such
endeauors
.
Yea
the
Kings
most
excellent
Majestie
,
hath
by
his
priuiate
approbation
of
that
booke
,
&
vnder
his
publike
seale
,
giuen
soe
princely
a
testemony
of
his
desire
,
to
credit
&
cherish
in
his
Subjects
,
exercizes
'
of
such
nature
;
that
their
abuse
of
me
,
is
not
without
some
iniury
to
the
Iudgment
&
Authority
of
his
Majestie
.
Surely
,
he
hath
not
deserued
it
at
their
hands
:
And
alas
,
what
cause
haue
I
giuen
them
,
that
they
should
thus
deale
with
me
?
What
labor
of
thei●…s
did
I
e●…r
traduce
?
Or
whose
good
repute
at
any
tyme
haue
I
envied
at
?
when
I
haue
seene
the
nakednesse
of
some
among
them
,
I
haue
couered
it
.
Yea
,
I
haue
labored
to
saue
the
reputation
of
such
as
these
,
where
their
indiscretions
had
nigh
lost
it
:
And
will
they
so
recompence
me
as
to
conuert
my
best
Actions
to
my
reproach
?
Cann
they
not
be
content
to
be
silent
,
when
they
are
not
disposed
to
approoue
,
but
must
they
dispraise
alsoe
,
to
the
encouragment
of
my
other
ignorant
Aduersaries
in
their
opposition
?
And
,
because
I
haue
performed
a
laborious
worke
,
not
so
exactly
,
perhapps
,
as
they
conceaue
it
might
haue
bene
;
will
they
make
it
more
my
disparagment
,
then
it
is
to
some
of
them
to
be
employed
about
nothing
?
If
in
any
thing
I
haue
deserued
ill
,
let
them
not
secreetly
traduce
me
,
but
christianly
reprooue
me
according
to
the
duty
of
their
callings
.
If
I
haue
deserued
nothing
,
let
them
advise
me
how
to
merrit
better
;
or
suffer
me
to
be
altogether
vnspoken
of
,
as
those
many
thousands
are
that
do●…
nothing
.
If
I
haue
deserued
any
thing
,
let
t●…m
leaue
me
to
the
fruite
of
mine
owne
labor
,
&
if
that
be
not
able
to
reward
it selfe
without
their
cost
,
I
wil
suffer
the
losse
.
I
haue
hitherto
spent
my
owne
tyme
&
fortunes
,
in
my
studyes
;
neuer
ayming
at
any
of
their
spirituall
promotions
,
(
no
not
so
much
as
at
a
lay
Prebhend
)
for
my
labor
.
For
,
the
principall
reward
I
seeke
,
is
that
which
euery
eye
seeth
not
,
&
that
which
those
who
iudge
my
affections
by
their
owne
,
think
me
to
haue
least
thought
on
.
As
for
that
outward
benifite
which
the
necessityes
of
this
life
,
&
my
fraylties
vrge
me
somewhat
to
looke
after
;
it
is
that
little
profitt
only
,
which
my
worke
naturally
brings
with
it selfe
:
nor
shall
I
be
long
discontented
,
if
that
alsoe
be
taken
from
me
.
Some
haue
already
a
strong
expectation
to
see
me
wholy
depriued
of
it
;
&
some
(
kind
harts
)
could
be
content
to
allow
me
a
part
thereof
,
but
not
so
much
as
they
suppose
my
iust
profitt
would
amount
vnto
.
For
,
(
they
say
)
that
were
too
great
a
consideration
for
so
little
a
worke
.
Wherein
,
they
shew
their
grosse
partiality
:
For
,
thousands
a
yeare
is
not
accounted
suffieient
for
some
who
haue
suddainely
attained
their
estates
,
by
vnnecessary
or
base
(
&
perhapps
,
wicked
)
employments
:
Yet
,
they
esteeme
one
hundred
too
much
for
him
that
hath
performed
a
worke
honest
&
profitable
to
the
publike
▪
because
he
performed
it
in
a
shorter
tyme
then
some
would
haue
done
.
Neuer
thinking
how
many
yeares
practise
&
expences
,
he
had
first
con●…ed
▪
to
make
himselfe
fit
for
such
an
〈◊〉
neuer
considering
what
he
might
haue
gained
,
if
he
had
bestowed
the
same
tyme
,
charge
,
&
industry
in
other
professions
;
neuer
regarding
●…owlōg
he
might
haue
bene
without
hope
of
profit
,
if
that
had
not
happened
,
How
vncertain●…
the
fruite
may
yet
prooue
,
nor
how
many
troubles
,
charges
,
and
hinderances
he
hath
bene
heretofore
at
,
without
any
consideration
at
all
.
But
,
I
leaue
them
to
their
vniust
diuission
:
Let
them
alot
me
what
they
please
,
&
ballance
my
Talent
as
they
list
.
God
will
prouide
sufficient
for
me
,
to
whose
pleasure
I
referr
the
succeffe
:
&
,
though
I
may
in
this
manner
speake
a
little
,
to
shew
them
I
am
sensible
of
their
vsage
.
Yet
,
they
shall
see
I
will
walke
as
contentedly
,
what
euer
happens
,
as
if
I
had
the
fullfilling
of
all
my
hopes
.
I
beseech
your
RRces
to
pardon
me
,
though
my
penn
hath
spirted
a
little
ynke
on
those
last
mentioned
;
For
,
next
the
Stationers
they
haue
bene
of
all
others
the
most
iniurious
vnto
me
:
And
saue
that
I
haue
a
Christian
regard
,
to
their
calling
,
and
to
preserue
the
patience
becomming
him
that
hath
exercized
himselfe
in
sacred
Studies
,
I
had
here
dropt
gall
,
and
made
them
perceaué
that
I
haue
as
true
feeling
of
harsh
vsages
,
as
other
men
.
But
,
I
do
for
Gods
sake
spare
them
,
and
for
your
sakes
,
whom
I
haue
found
ready
to
comfort
,
assist
,
and
direct
me
in
my
good
purposes
.
I
do
forbeare
the
Stationers
alsoe
in
the
mention
of
many
particuler
mivsages
yet
not
spoken
of
;
and
in
desisting
to
agrauate
what
I
haue
hitherto
touched
vpon
,
so
farr
forth
as
I
haue
cause
.
For
,
if
I
should
here
declare
vnto
your
RRces
,
by
way
of
illustration
how
many
seuerall
Discourtisies
they
haue
offred
me
;
how
they
haue
resisted
the
Kings
Grant
,
since
the
beginning
of
our
Controuersy
:
how
they
concluded
to
let
me
disburse
all
the
mony
I
could
,
before
they
would
openly
oppose
me
,
that
then
my
profit
being
hindered
I
might
be
constrained
to
yeald
to
their
pleasures
,
or
to
be
ruined
in
my
estate
:
How
violently
they
haue
euer
since
persecuted
my
purposed
hinderance
,
to
my
great
losse
:
How
willfully
they
haue
misenformed
the
Kings
Majestie
&
diuerse
honorable
personages
concerning
my
Grant
(
&
my
procedings
)
to
procure
my
damage
:
How
vniustly
they
gaue
out
among
their
Customers
,
that
my
Grant
was
a
Monopoly
,
&
an
exaction
to
the
oppression
of
the
people
:
How
impudently
&
faulsly
,
they
haue
verefied
,
that
I
had
procured
that
no
man
might
buy
a
Bible
,
Testament
,
or
Communion-Booke
which
out
my
Hymnes
:
How
they
compelled
a
few
of
the
Bookebynders
(
whose
estates
much
depend
on
their
fauors
)
to
present
the
high
Court
of
Parliament
with
diuers
vntrue
suggestions
in
the
name
of
fourescore
;
when
as
all
except
4.
or
5
,
of
them
,
did
(
as
I
haue
heard
)
reiect
the
said
information
as
faulse
&
rediculous
:
how
foolishly
they
haue
sought
to
make
me
seeme
pore
in
my
estate
,
as
if
I
had
aymed
at
some
reputation
that
way
:
How
from
day
to
day
,
during
all
this
Session
they
haue
maintained
three
or
foure
of
their
Instruments
,
to
clamor
against
me
at
the
Parliament
house
dore
,
in
so
rude
a
fashion
as
was
neuer
exampled
in
any
Cause
:
How
farr
they
haue
threatned
to
engage
themselues
&
their
fortunes
in
my
opposition
:
How
dishonestly
they
dare
pretend
the
good
of
the
Common
wealth
when
they
haue
but
priuate
ends
;
&
when
they
themselves
do
really
oppresse
the
same
,
&
are
(
in
a
higher
nature
)
truly
guilty
of
those
greeuances
,
which
they
faulsely
lay
vnto
my
Charge
:
How
malitiously
they
haue
hindered
themselues
&
their
whole
Company
,
of
an
assured
benifite
,
that
I
might
haue
the
greater
losse
:
How
they
take
occasion
in
all
Assemblyes
to
vent
as
much
as
they
cann
to
my
disparagment
;
as
if
they
had
projected
to
make
me
(
if
it
were
possible
)
infamous
through
out
the
whole
Kingdome
.
I
say
,
if
I
should
giue
vnto
your
RRces
all
these
perticulers
truly
Illustrated
;
&
shew
how
false
I
could
prooue
their
informations
;
how
cruell
their
dealings
,
how
base
their
slanders
,
how
absurd
their
cavills
,
&
how
much
I
haue
with
patience
endured
them
vnspoken
of
(
till
this
day
)
in
hope
to
find
them
better
affected
;
you
would
say
that
God
had
enabled
me
beyond
the
powre
of
mine
owne
weaknesse
.
And
perhapps
alsoe
,
you
would
think
it
a
worke
of
mercy
,
to
helpe
deliuer
me
from
their
Tyranny
.
But
,
the
amplification
of
these
things
,
and
my
answeares
to
all
those
obiections
which
they
haue
published
,
I
reserue
for
the
high
Court
of
Parliament
;
or
for
their
hearing
who
shal
be
appointed
Iudges
of
the
differences
betweene
vs
.
And
then
,
if
I
shall
not
appeare
worthy
to
be
freed
from
their
oppression
,
I
wil
be
contented
still
to
suffer
;
&
to
giue
vp
both
my
labors
and
Priueledges
to
be
the
prey
of
their
Auarice
.
In
the
meane
tyme
,
I
will
defend
my selfe
and
my
right
as
I
am
able
.
In
which
I
know
,
I
shall
haue
much
to
doe
;
Seeing
those
whom
I
am
to
resist
are
an
Aduersary
so
many
wayes
armed
for
my
disadvantage
,
as
I
could
hardly
haue
found
out
the
like
.
For
,
they
will
not
only
come
against
me
,
in
the
Name
of
a
respected
Corporation
,
pretending
the
good
and
releefe
of
a
pore
Multitude
(
which
I
shal
be
able
to
proue
vnder
the
hands
,
of
60
of
their
owne
Company
they
haue
made
porer
then
otherwise
it
would
haue
bene
)
but
they
haue
so
many
other
fayre
pretences
alsoe
,
such
clokes
of
sincerity
,
and
such
vnsuspected
insinuations
to
screwe
themselues
into
good
opinion
,
to
his
disaduantage
whom
they
oppose
,
that
he
shall
haue
need
of
all
his
faculties
.
And
,
though
their
cause
should
appeare
faulty
:
Yet
,
they
haue
soe
plentifull
a
stock
to
make
it
hopefull
;
soe
many
heads
to
plott
euasions
;
soe
many
Soliciters
to
prosecute
their
designes
,
such
Instruments
ready
to
stretch
their
consciences
to
serue
them
;
So
many
seuerall
persons
to
procure
freinds
;
Such
a
multitude
to
lay
the
shame
and
blame
among
▪
when
they
do
a
man
any
wilfull
or
apparant
iniury
;
So
much
oppertunity
(
by
meanes
of
their
Trade
and
Customers
)
to
possesse
the
generality
on
their
behalfes
;
Such
a
Brood
of
Ingles
(
by
reason
of
their
many
troublesome
suites
)
in
euery
Court
of
Iustice
,
and
about
euery
eminent
person
,
ready
to
serue
their
turnes
;
And
so
desperately
valiant
are
they
in
vowing
the
persecution
of
what
they
vndertake
(
though
it
were
to
be
maintained
by
the
expence
of
many
thousand
p●…unds
)
that
to
graple
with
them
,
and
come
of
vnfoiled
,
were
one
of
Hercules
his
labors
.
I
scarcely
sett
my
foot
into
any
place
,
whither
I
vsually
resort
,
but
I
am
told
of
their
foule
language
against
me
:
I
seldome
meet
that
man
of
my
Acquaintance
,
but
they
haue
possest
him
with
somewhat
against
my
Grant
;
Nor
come
I
into
that
Noble-mans
lodginge
,
where
they
haue
not
already
one
of
his
Chamber
,
or
some
other
near
about
him
,
forward
to
dispute
their
cause
;
and
vppon
all
occasions
to
possesse
their
Lord
with
such
vntrue
suggestions
as
they
dare
informe
.
And
questionles
they
haue
other
aduantages
that
my
experience
among
them
,
hath
not
yet
discouered
;
which
if
God
should
turne
to
foolishnes
,
I
doubt
they
would
grow
desperate
.
For
,
(
as
I
am
told
)
one
of
them
was
not
ashamed
lately
to
affirme
,
that
if
their
ayme
succeeded
not
,
it
would
cost
some
their
liues
.
God
blesse
the
men
,
and
giue
them
grace
to
see
their
distemper
before
it
come
to
that
;
and
in
tyme
to
suspect
the
honoesty
of
that
cause
,
which
wresteth
out
such
words
of
desperation
.
For
mine
owne
parte
,
my
conscience
is
witnesse
of
such
warrantablenes
in
mine
,
that
(
whether
I
sink
or
swimme
in
that
particuler
)
I
hope
,
and
am
perswaded
,
it
shall
make
toward
my
best
happinesse
.
But
,
I
haue
gotten
(
some
will
say
)
such
a
powrefull
and
furious
Aduersary
by
this
quarrell
,
that
I
shall
fill
my
life
full
of
troubles
&
dangers
.
Indeed
,
I
looke
to
find
them
perfect
enimies
;
but
(
since
I
must
haue
enimies
)
they
are
such
foes
as
I
would
desire
to
haue
.
I
expect
they
will
proue
violent
&
subtill
,
but
not
so
violent
or
subtill
,
as
the
Deuill
,
who
is
euery
moment
watching
to
deuour
me
:
And
,
it
may
be
their
malice
will
make
me
so
vigilant
ouer
my selfe
,
that
I
shall
the
better
escape
his
.
I
haue
heard
one
that
thinking
to
kill
his
enimie
,
gaue
him
a
sleight
hurt
that
cured
him
of
a
mortall
disease
;
and
so
may
they
serue
me
.
I
was
euer
as
carefull
as
I
could
be
,
of
my
wayes
;
Yet
,
knowing
no
great
Foes
I
had
,
but
such
only
as
were
spirituall
,
I
more
striued
for
an
inward
sincerity
,
then
to
make
fayre
appearances
outwardly
;
and
therefore
gaue
,
perhapps
,
some
occasion
now
and
then
,
of
scandall
through
my
simple
freedome
:
because
,
haueing
no
ill
purpose
,
I
thought
euery
looker
on
,
would
censure
as
charitably
of
my
Actions
,
as
my
Intentions
deserued
.
But
,
now
I
shall
haue
remembrancers
to
prouoke
me
to
more
strict
circumspection
,
&
betwixt
the
Deuill
in
secret
,
&
my
new
foes
in
publike
▪
shal
be
kept
,
I
hope
so
watchfull
,
that
myne
eye
shall
not
dare
looke
off
from
God
.
Nor
,
my
hand
fasten
it selfe
vpon
the
rotten
sta●…e
of
any
humane
protection
.
I
will
perswade
my selfe
,
that
where
ere
I
goe
,
one
of
them
doggs
me
:
&
though
it
is
not
the
feare
of
the
world
for
which
I
make
conscience
of
what
I
do
,
yet
an
outward
obiect
may
sometyme
quicken
an
inward
consideration
when
it
is
almost
asleepe
,
&
I
embrace
the
occasion
▪
They
lately
threatned
the
marking
of
my
wayes
:
&
I
therefore
giue
them
hearty
thankes
:
for
,
I
neuer
since
behold
one
of
their
Fraternity
,
but
it
is
an
Alarum
to
me
,
&
driues
me
immediately
to
consider
,
what
I
last
did
,
what
I
am
then
doing
,
&
what
I
purpose
to
goe
about
.
Nay
,
I
haue
apossiblity
of
braue
Aduantages
,
if
their
enmity
encrease
,
as
it
hath
done
hitherto
.
There
is
not
an
ouersight
which
I
was
guilty
of
since
my
cradle
,
nor
a
Folly
which
I
was
euer
suspected
of
,
nor
any
forgetfulnesse
which
I
may
be
prone
to
fall
into
;
but
I
hope
they
will
enquire
it
out
&
lay
it
to
my
charge
.
That
the
great
Accuser
may
haue
the
●…sse
to
obiect
,
at
the
last
Iudgment
.
These
priueledges
will
I
gaine
by
it
.
If
they
accuse
me
of
ought
wherein
I
am
truly
faulty
;
it
shall
I
trust
moue
me
to
a
true
repentance
,
begett
in
me
amendment
for
the
tyme
to
come
;
&
through
the
shame
of
this
life
,
lead
me
into
the
glory
of
the
next
.
If
any
cry
me
be
obiected
whereof
I
am
cleare
,
I
will
remember
that
the
world
hath
sometyme
praised
me
more
then
I
diserued
,
so
(
●…etting
her
praises
&
disparagments
to
ballance
one
another
)
will
forgiue
her
,
&
haue
as
little
to
do
with
her
,
hereafter
as
I
cann
.
Yea
,
it
may
be
that
if
my
Aduersaries
would
once
speak
out
&
openly
,
that
which
they
whisper
priuately
to
to
my
disgrace
,
I
should
thence
take
occasion
not
only
to
acquite
my selfe
of
many
imputations
,
whereby
I
am
now
iniured
to
the
scandall
of
my
personn
,
&
the
hinderance
of
some
of
that
good
with
my
labors
might
els
effect
;
But
I
shall
paraduenture
alsoe
find
oppertunity
thereby
to
to
publish
that
,
which
will
teach
others
vpon
what
considerations
they
may
keepe
their
minds
quiet
,
in
the
like
affliction
;
And
shew
them
how
to
convert
all
malitious
defamations
to
the
shame
of
their
enimies
,
to
the
glory
of
God
,
to
their
present
consolation
,
and
to
their
future
aduantage
for
euer
.
Nay
if
my
Aduersaries
hold
on
that
violence
which
they
now
make
shew
of
,
I
trust
to
Discouer
hereafter
,
by
my
constant
example
,
these
to
be
no
brauadoes
or
meere
verball
florishes
▪
but
that
there
is
in
my
soule
a
reall
knowledge
&
feeling
of
what
I
professe
.
For
,
I
haue
by
my selfe
mustered
my
forces
;
and
I
haue
considered
that
I
am
but
one
,
and
they
many
:
I
know
no
man
of
powre
whose
assistance
I
may
challenge
by
any
desert
of
my
owne
,
whereas
their
large
gratuities
haue
that
way
made
them
strong
.
I
find
my
naturall
bashfullnesse
to
be
such
that
I
could
not
(
though
it
were
to
saue
my
life
)
trouble
men
in
honorable
place
about
my
priuate
quarrells
.
For
,
if
they
be
altogether
strangers
it
seemes
to
me
impudence
to
solicite
them
;
If
we
are
but
acquainted
only
,
me
thinks
I
should
first
deserue
somewhat
.
And
I
hold
that
he
who
is
worthy
the
name
of
my
freind
will
do
me
what
fauor
he
cann
without
asking
it
,
assoone
as
he
parceaues
I
need
him
.
On
the
contrary
;
their
audacity
is
such
,
that
they
cann
shamelesly
importune
and
scrape
to
any
man
,
for
their
aduantage
;
euen
to
those
whom
they
haue
abused
rather
then
faile
.
I
haue
remembred
likewise
,
that
I
am
scarce
able
to
prouide
their
due
fees
required
in
the
prosecution
of
my
cause
,
whereas
they
haue
large
bribes
to
giue
(
if
any
liued
in
this
Age
that
would
accept
them
.
)
I
haue
pondered
alsoe
,
how
vnapt
my
disposition
is
to
work
vpon
dishonest
Aduantages
,
and
how
readily
they
take
all
oppertunities
to
my
wrong
.
Beside
these
,
many
other
disproportions
I
discouered
in
our
strenghts
vpon
my
survay
;
Neuertheles
when
I
had
sett
downe
the
nature
of
my
cause
,
and
surveyed
what
Amunition
God
〈◊〉
a
good
conscience
had
stored
vp
within
me
,
I
made
vp
my
Resolution
for
the
cumbate
;
And
,
now
I
beginn
to
be
acquainted
with
their
skirmishes
,
the
more
my
dangers
appeare
,
the
lesse
are
my
discouragments
.
Yea
,
I
vowe
,
all
their
great
threats
are
but
as
so
many
handfulls
of
dust
cast
into
the
wind
;
and
all
the
mischeefe
the
whole
body
of
their
forces
is
yet
able
to
bring
about
,
cannot
breake
me
of
so
much
sleepe
as
on●…
flea
.
For
,
when
according
to
Dauids
example
I
seek
to
strenghthen
my
saith
with
calling
to
mind
Gods
former
protections
;
I
finde
that
when
I
was
all
alone
and
vnarmed
(
after
the
manner
of
the
world
)
I
was
deliuered
from
two
afflictions
,
which
(
all
circumstances
considered
)
were
as
dangerous
in
appearance
▪
as
the
Beare
and
Lyon
which
assailed
Dauid
:
and
I
take
it
for
an
in●…allable
token
,
that
I
shall
be
now
alsoe
saued
from
the
Philistian-like
troupe
,
and
their
Goliah-like
Champions
,
who
haue
railed
vpon
that
which
wa●…
prepared
for
the
honor
of
the
liueing
God
:
And
(
though
I
am
not
vsed
to
their
weapons
)
shall
be
provided
of
a
sling
and
a
stone
sufficient
enough
to
encounter
their
yron
speares
,
and
brazen
head-peeces
,
in
spight
of
that
Targateer
in
whom
they
trust
.
And
I
am
perswaded
that
God
hath
permitted
me
to
suffer
what
hath
be
fallen
me
by
their
meanes
,
not
only
to
punish
my
synnes
,
and
exercize
my
faith
in
him
;
but
that
being
a
little
experienced
in
Dauids
afflictions
,
I
might
haue
somewhat
the
more
feeling
of
that
which
he
suffred
(
by
reason
of
the
Combinations
of
his
wicked
Aduersaryes
)
and
●…oe
be
made
the
abler
to
expresse
his
passions
,
and
the
persecutions
of
Iesus
Christ
and
his
members
,
sett
forth
in
his
holy
Psalmes
;
which
I
am
preparing
for
our
English
Lyre
.
For
,
I
finde
aswell
by
my
owne
experience
,
as
by
the
testimony
of
diuers
learned
men
conuersant
in
that
booke
,
that
it
can
neuer
be
relished
or
well
vnderstood
by
any
man
,
vntill
he
hath
passed
through
the
tryall
of
some
extraordinary
afflictions
.
These
expressions
will
to
some
(
paraduenture
)
who
are
not
acquainted
with
me
,
and
the
true
state
of
my
cause
,
seeme
impertinent
and
vnsauory
;
but
,
I
knowe
their
vse
&
necessity
to
be
such
,
and
haue
so
well
examined
the
warrātablenes●…e
of
my
priuate
ends
therein
,
(
and
the
probablenesse
of
a
profitable
successe
)
that
I
am
not
ashamed
to
expose
them
to
the
world
;
nor
fearefull
of
any
man●…
dislike
.
Nor
do
I
value
the
taxation
of
those
who
shall
vpon
the
view
of
this
condemne
me
of
too
much
bitternesse
in
the
reprouing
and
laying
open
the
cruelty
of
my
Aduersaryes
.
For
,
my
conscience
is
witnesse
that
I
haue
vsed
no
termes
of
sharpenesse
but
such
as
I
haue
example
for
,
out
of
the
complaints
of
the
meekest
saints
of
God
;
and
such
as
are
properly
required
to
describe
the
true
nature
of
their
malice
.
And
I
protest
before
the
almighty
God
,
that
to
my
knowledge
I
haue
added
nothing
in
this
discourse
concerninge
them
,
but
what
is
either
true
in
my
owne
experience
,
or
so
probably
declared
vnto
me
,
that
I
haue
no
cause
to
suspect
the
contrary
:
And
so
far
am
I
from
bearing
the
least
personall
malice
to
any
of
them
,
that
I
dayly
pray
for
them
as
heartely
as
for
my selfe
.
Yea
,
that
day
in
which
they
do
me
the
greatest
vnkindnesses
,
I
most
earnestly
wish
them
well
;
&
do
them
feele
my
spirit
striuing
against
my
naturall
corruption
on
their
behalfe
,
more
powrefully
then
at
other
tymes
.
And
(
whateuer
they
beleeue
of
me
)
God
let
me
not
prosper
in
any
affayre
of
this
life
,
if
I
would
not
be
depriued
of
my
best
earthly
hopes
,
rather
then
do
a
wilfull
i●…iury
,
euen
to
him
among
them
of
whose
particuler
malice
I
haue
most
experience
.
Which
protestation
,
no
man
haueing
the
feare
of
God
dare
to
pronounce
vntruly
;
nor
cann
any
man
haueing
the
charity
of
a
good
Christian
,
suspect
it
to
be
false
,
being
so
deliberately
declared
.
Or
if
this
asseueration
be
not
enough
,
my
dayly
practise
and
behauior
towards
them
will
witnesse
somewhat
on
my
befalfe
.
For
,
though
they
haue
not
only
hindered
my
profit
to
the
value
of
some
hundreds
of
pounds
since
our
dissention
,
but
wasted
much
alsoe
of
my
principall
estate
;
Yet
,
when
I
had
sufficient
Authority
to
haue
made
my selfe
immediatly
whole
againe
,
vpon
their
goods
who
were
prime
Agents
against
me
;
neuerthelesse
,
I
long
forbore
to
put
my
powre
in
execution
,
and
when
I
was
compelled
to
execute
it
vpon
some
of
them
,
I
returned
their
goods
back
againe
vpon
their
owne
entreaty
,
&
forgot
and
forgaue
all
misvsages
without
returning
so
much
as
a
harsh
word
vnto
them
,
or
retaining
so
much
as
the
charges
of
ceasure
;
because
,
if
it
had
bene
possible
I
would
haue
wonn
them
by
fayre
meanes
.
Yea
,
when
it
was
in
my
powre
to
haue
procured
the
committment
of
some
among
them
,
who
had
showne
themselues
most
spightfull
vnto
me
;
I
forbore
to
aggrauate
the
matter
against
them
,
according
to
their
desert
(
euen
out
of
meere
charitable
compassion
)
though
I
suspected
they
would
laugh
at
me
for
my
labor
,
as
I
heard
afterward
they
did
.
Which
doth
(
at
least
)
probably
verify
that
I
haue
no
malignant
or
reuengfull
inclination
toward
the
personn
of
any
one
among
them
.
For
,
what
cann
they
deuise
against
me
more
prouoking
then
they
haue
already
done
?
Verely
,
there
is
no
other
cruelty
lest
,
for
them
to
practise
,
but
the
torturing
of
my
flesh
:
&
what
is
that
,
in
respect
of
wounding
my
reputation
,
which
they
haue
so
much
endeauored
.
Men
of
the
basest
condition
will
dayly
hazzard
their
bodyes
for
the
defence
euen
of
their
suparfluous
goods
,
or
vpon
the
giuing
of
one
disgracefull
word
;
&
therefore
,
it
seemes
that
among
some
,
those
are
greater
iniuries
then
to
wound
&
kill
.
How
great
wrong
do
I
then
beare
in
my
fame
,
that
suffer
patiently
not
only
their
triuiall
imputations
,
but
to
be
vniustly
alsoe
,
accounted
a
blasphemer
&
a
profane
person
?
and
am
by
their
meanes
depriued
,
not
only
of
superfluities
,
but
in
a
manner
of
all
my
liuelyhood
?
For
when
those
Freinds
who
are
engaged
for
me
are
satisfied
(
to
which
purpose
there
is
yet
I
praise
God
,
sufficient
set
apart
)
I
vowe
in
the
faith
of
an
honest
man
,
that
there
will
not
be
left
me
in
all
the
world
,
to
defend
me
against
my
Aduersaryes
,
&
supply
the
comon
necessityes
of
nature
,
so
much
as
will
feed
me
one
weeke
,
vnles
I
labor
for
it
.
Which
,
my
enimies
are
partly
enformed
of
,
&
do
therevpon
triumph
.
But
not
to
my
discontentment
.
For
,
I
do
comfort
my selfe
,
to
think
how
sweet
it
will
be
to
sitt
hereafter
at
some
honest
labor
,
and
sing
those
Hymnes
and
Songes
to
the
praise
of
God
,
for
which
the
world
hath
taken
from
me
her
fauors
.
Nor
doth
it
trouble
me
to
publish
thus
much
of
my
pouerty
,
though
I
knowe
it
will
sound
disgracefully
in
the
eares
of
most
men
.
For
,
I
meane
to
procure
no
man
to
hazzard
his
estate
for
me
,
by
pretending
better
possibilities
to
secure
him
then
I
haue
;
as
others
vsually
do
:
Nor
value
I
the
reputation
which
comes
by
wealth
or
such
like
things
as
may
be
lost
through
the
malice
of
others
,
because
I
know
I
shall
be
the
better
esteemed
of
for
those
toyes
,
by
none
but
Fooles
or
such
Ideots
as
will
sooner
blush
to
be
found
pore
,
then
dishonest
.
Yea
,
I
am
assured
that
among
good
&
wise
men
,
it
will
be
no
more
shame
vnto
me
to
be
made
pore
by
such
meanes
as
I
haue
bene
,
then
it
is
to
be
made
sick
by
the
hand
of
God
:
Nor
cann
I
think
it
will
be
more
my
disgrace
to
haue
wasted
my
estate
through
my
studyes
,
then
it
is
to
some
other
students
to
haue
thereby
empaired
their
healthes
.
But
,
some
will
object
that
I
haue
by
publishing
this
Apology
not
only
taxed
those
who
are
guilty
of
such
things
as
I
haue
perticularized
,
but
layd
a
publike
imputation
alsoe
,
vpon
the
whole
Company
of
Stationers
;
&
bene
so
generall
in
my
accusations
that
the
credit
euen
of
those
honest
men
among
them
,
will
be
much
endangered
.
Indeed
,
the
good
&
badd
are
incorporated
together
into
one
body
,
&
so
intermixed
that
it
wil
be
very
difficult
to
shoot
at
the
Starlings
&
misse
the
Pigeons
.
Yet
,
I
haue
discharged
this
among
them
(
in
spight
of
their
threatning
the
Starchamber
)
&
if
now
it
be
examined
where
my
pelletts
fell
,
you
shall
find
none
wounded
,
but
those
Starlings
which
haue
troubled
the
Douehouse
;
&
that
there
is
not
one
innocent
Doue
dispoiled
of
a
feather
▪
I
protested
in
the
beginning
of
this
discourse
,
that
I
had
no
purpose
to
lay
any
scandall
vpon
the
whole
Corporation
;
&
that
it
may
appeare
I
protested
no
more
then
truth
,
I
will
here
shew
you
how
those
Stationers
against
whom
I
haue
complained
,
may
be
knowne
from
such
as
I
desire
to
except
from
this
accusation
.
I
will
be
bold
to
averr
,
that
many
,
(
&
the
most
powrefull
of
them
)
are
some
of
those
who
vsurpe
the
maniging
of
the
Companies
affaires
;
and
that
to
cullor
their
malice
&
priuate
coueteousnesse
,
they
do
in
the
name
of
the
Corporation
&
at
the
common
charge
prosecute
against
me
;
pretending
that
it
is
the
cause
&
good
of
their
whole
Company
,
for
which
they
stand
.
Neuerthelesse
,
I
do
not
take
the
whole
body
of
the
Corporation
to
be
my
aduersary
,
no
more
then
I
would
think
the
whole
Citty
of
London
hated
me
,
if
the
greatest
part
of
the
Court
of
Aldermen
should
persue
me
with
malice
vpon
a
priuate
quarrell
.
For
,
most
of
those
men
who
are
princepally
busy
against
me
,
vnder
the
name
of
the
Company
of
Stationers
,
are
aboue
all
others
iniurious
&
scandalous
to
that
Company
;
as
appeares
by
those
petitions
which
haue
bene
heretofore
preferred
both
to
the
Kings
Majestie
&
the
Parliament
house
,
by
some
of
their
owne
fraternity
,
against
the
oppressions
&
vsurpations
of
their
Gouernors
.
Those
indeed
may
well
be
called
the
scumme
(
that
is
the
creame
)
of
the
Company
.
For
,
if
they
were
throughly
churnd
,
welnigh
all
the
fatnesse
of
his
Majesties
gratious
priueledges
giuen
to
releeue
their
pore
,
and
for
the
generall
benifite
of
their
Corporation
,
would
be
found
in
them
.
And
so
farr
is
the
maine
body
of
their
Society
from
fauoring
their
courses
,
or
from
fearing
any
disgrace
to
them
by
this
Apology
that
lately
hearing
it
was
to
be
divulged
by
the
name
of
the
Stationers
Commonwealth
;
they
did
▪
expect
it
with
much
content
:
In
hope
it
would
be
an
occasion
to
make
some
way
to
their
deliuerance
,
from
those
iniuries
which
they
suffer
.
And
verily
,
if
you
had
heard
,
as
I
haue
done
,
how
many
of
the
Printers
,
of
the
Bookebynders
,
and
of
the
yonger
Bookesellers
among
them
,
do
complaine
against
most
of
their
Gouernors
,
and
how
many
matters
of
great
consequence
they
do
probably
obiect
:
You
would
thinke
it
were
vnsufferable
,
and
that
it
is
great
pitty
there
is
not
some
course
taken
for
the
strick
examination
of
their
Abuses
,
in
such
manner
that
those
who
are
oppressed
,
may
come
to
declare
their
greeuances
without
feare
of
a
future
disaduantage
.
For
,
those
against
whom
they
would
complaine
,
haueing
now
in
their
powre
the
estates
,
&
employments
of
such
poore
men
as
think
themselues
oppressed
,
they
dare
not
openly
appeare
against
them
,
vntill
they
perceaue
a
likely
hope
of
being
fully
,
speedily
,
and
impartially
heard
;
lest
it
turne
to
their
vtter
vndoing
,
if
they
preuaile
not
.
But
,
what
if
those
aforesaid
among
the
Stationers
(
who
would
be
taken
▪
forsooth
▪
to
be
the
whole
Corporation
)
haue
not
abused
their
owne
society
only
,
but
that
trust
alsoe
which
hath
bene
committed
vnto
them
by
the
State
?
What
,
if
it
may
be
proued
that
those
bookes
which
they
haue
taken
from
others
as
vnlawfull
,
haue
bene
divulged
againe
by
some
in
office
among
them
for
their
priuate
commodity
?
What
,
if
it
may
appeare
they
haue
solde
those
bookes
which
did
to
their
knowledge
containe
matter
iniurious
to
the
person
of
the
King
,
and
Prince
?
What
,
if
many
of
those
pamphletts
which
haue
discontented
his
Majestie
,
troubled
the
State
,
&
disturbed
the
people
,
were
dispersed
(
nay
procured
to
be
ymprinted
)
by
some
of
those
?
&
that
their
shifting
it
vpon
their
seruants
,
with
such
like
evasions
,
will
be
found
of
no
truth
?
What
,
if
it
will
be
justified
,
that
the
Wardens
of
their
Company
haue
found
such
bookes
imprinting
;
taken
a
way
part
of
them
;
knew
they
were
vnauthorized
and
scandalous
;
&
yet
permitted
both
the
presse
to
go
on
,
and
the
bookes
to
be
divulged
?
What
,
if
they
haue
dispersed
popish
and
schismaticall
bookes
more
then
any
others
?
What
,
if
those
foolish
&
prophane
bookes
where
withall
the
world
is
now
filled
to
the
peruerting
of
youth
,
and
the
corrvption
of
good
manners
,
be
manifested
to
be
the
coppies
that
haue
enriched
many
of
them
?
What
if
those
wrongs
,
offred
to
the
Vniuersities
,
and
those
greeuances
which
the
whole
common-wealth
suffers
(
in
being
burthened
with
volumes
of
trash
▪
in
being
oppressed
in
the
prizes
of
bookes
and
iniured
by
their
vnseruiceable
bynding
)
may
be
declared
to
be
altogether
by
their
default
?
Verely
,
if
I
should
instance
vpon
these
particulers
,
what
I
could
;
their
Foundations
would
shake
,
&
the
whole
frame
of
their
foolish
machinations
would
be
shattred
about
their
eares
.
But
,
I
spare
to
proceed
further
vntill
they
shall
further
compell
me
:
(
euen
for
the
sakes
of
their
pore
wiues
&
Children
)
&
would
wish
them
to
be
warned
by
this
gentle
Item
,
to
amend
among
themselues
what
is
amisse
before
the
strict
hand
of
Authority
cease
them
;
lest
it
be
then
made
apparant
to
the
whole
Kingdome
,
that
my
cheefe
persecutors
among
the
Stationers
,
be
those
who
are
so
vnworthy
to
beare
the
name
of
the
whole
Company
,
that
they
are
not
so
much
as
good
members
thereof
,
but
rather
,
enimies
,
Robbers
and
Defamers
of
their
Society
,
and
iniurious
to
this
whole
Commonwealth
.
But
,
doe
I
lay
this
to
the
charge
of
all
those
who
are
the
rulers
of
this
Corporation
?
No
verely
,
not
to
them
alone
.
For
,
I
beleeue
there
be
some
of
their
Cheefes
greeued
at
the
peruersenesse
of
such
among
them
who
haue
bene
iniurious
to
me
,
&
to
their
Society
;
and
I
think
they
would
willingly
remedy
all
,
if
the
wilfulnesse
of
the
rest
were
not
more
powrefull
then
their
good
perswasions
;
as
one
(
not
of
the
meanest
of
them
)
lately
confest
vnto
me
.
There
be
alsoe
among
the
inferior
sort
of
Bookesellers
,
(
as
my
experience
hath
taught
me
)
some
well
and
some
ill
affected
to
my
cause
:
among
which
multitude
,
if
any
man
be
desirous
to
distinguish
those
men
from
the
rest
,
to
whose
charge
I
purpose
not
to
lay
the
abusing
of
me
,
in
such
manner
as
is
mentioned
in
this
discourse
;
by
these
obseruations
following
yt
may
infallably
be
done
.
When
any
man
shall
come
to
a
Stationers
shopp
to
buy
a
Psalmebooke
,
or
any
other
booke
,
with
which
the
Psalmes
of
Dauid
in
English
meeter
are
bound
vp
:
if
he
be
proffered
that
booke
with
my
Hymnes
therevnto
,
annexed
(
according
to
the
Kings
Command
)
or
if
wanting
it
,
a
reasonable
excuse
be
made
;
or
a
promise
to
prouide
it
according
to
the
Customers
desire
:
or
if
vpon
the
mentioning
of
me
,
and
that
worke
of
mine
,
he
do
neither
cauil
,
nor
obiect
any
thing
to
the
disgrace
of
that
,
or
me
:
or
if
vpon
enquiry
after
this
booke
,
he
promise
to
procure
it
,
or
shew
some
likely
cause
why
it
is
not
to
be
had
,
&
neither
raile
,
nor
grumble
,
nor
looke
doggedly
on
him
that
demands
it
,
before
departure
:
that
man
was
neuer
any
of
those
that
abused
me
.
Or
,
if
he
were
,
it
seemes
he
is
either
sorry
,
or
so
ashamed
he
hath
wronged
me
,
that
he
deserues
to
be
forgiuen
:
&
therefore
,
I
would
not
that
any
thing
which
he
was
guilty
of
to
my
harme
,
should
be
layd
to
his
charge
while
he
continues
in
that
temper
;
but
my
desire
is
(
if
it
were
possible
)
that
euery
man
who
hath
heard
him
abuse
me
,
should
rather
quite
forget
that
any
such
wronges
had
bene
done
.
For
,
some
haue
bene
ledd
on
to
iniure
me
out
of
meere
ignorance
;
some
,
for
Company
sake
;
some
,
because
of
their
dependance
vpon
such
as
are
my
illwillers
;
and
some
,
by
reason
they
beleeued
ouerwell
of
those
who
missedd
them
:
all
which
,
will
turne
another
leafe
,
as
soone
as
the
state
of
my
cause
appeareth
.
But
,
they
who
haue
out
of
pure
malice
persecuted
me
,
will
not
so
relent
.
The
Deuill
owes
them
a
shame
,
&
will
not
suffer
them
to
see
wherevnto
their
enuy
&
blind
Coueteousnesse
will
bring
them
,
before
he
hath
payd
them
.
Assooone
as
euer
this
booke
shewes
it selfe
abroade
,
I
durst
wager
the
price
of
it
,
that
you
shall
finde
those
fellowes
at
some
Tauerne
within
a
flight
shot
of
Paules
,
constulting
,
quotinge
,
commenting
,
and
obseruing
,
what
may
be
collected
out
of
it
,
to
my
disaduantage
:
and
,
if
anger
do
not
put
them
beside
their
old
custome
,
it
will
cost
them
a
worthy
legg
of
Mutton
,
a
Capon
,
and
a
gallon
or
twoe
of
wine
before
any
matter
willbe
disgested
worth
their
expences
.
Next
morning
(
it
is
tenn
to
one
els
)
they
may
be
found
at
some
Lawyers
Chamber
,
to
know
what
cann
be
pickt
out
of
this
Apology
,
to
beare
an
Action
of
slander
;
or
some
such
like
cullor
of
prosecuting
the
Law
,
against
me
.
But
,
that
will
be
to
little
purpose
;
for
the
booke
is
so
large
that
if
their
Counsell
haue
any
good
practise
,
he
must
be
fayne
to
take
tyme
vntill
the
next
long
vacation
to
read
it
ouer
;
and
by
that
tyme
,
he
will
haue
the
same
opinon
of
them
which
I
expresse
.
Assoone
as
they
com
from
Counsell
;
at
some
typling
house
they
will
presently
meet
againe
,
to
comfort
themselues
with
that
little
hope
which
the
law
seemes
to
promisse
.
And
it
may
be
,
thither
they
will
send
for
some
of
those
hyreling
Authors
of
theirs
,
that
vse
to
fashion
those
Pamphletts
that
suite
the
seuerall
humors
and
inclinations
of
the
tymes
;
or
one
of
those
that
penns
for
them
such
worthy
storyes
,
as
the
Dragon
of
Sussex
,
Tom
Thumbe
,
and
the
weekely
newes
.
From
whom
if
they
cann
procure
but
the
promise
of
makeing
some
foolish
libell
against
me
;
or
to
publish
an
impudent
reply
to
my
Apology
;
it
shall
not
cost
him
a
farthing
,
if
he
sitt
among
them
till
twelue
a
clock
at
night
;
and
perhapps
he
shall
haue
somewhat
in
earnest
alsoe
,
of
a
better
penny
.
If
any
man
enquire
of
them
for
my
booke
of
Hymnes
,
he
shall
be
sent
away
without
it
;
and
perhapps
they
will
passe
some
scandalous
censure
therevpon
.
If
this
booke
be
asked
after
among
them
,
they
will
presently
discouer
themselues
by
some
bitter
language
;
and
by
protesting
against
it
,
as
a
scurrilous
and
libellous
pamphlet
:
vpon
the
very
nameing
of
me
,
their
cullor
doth
vsually
change
:
And
if
the
Company
and
I
should
haue
any
meetings
together
about
these
matters
in
question
,
those
will
discouer
themselues
from
the
rest
,
by
their
Distempered
lookes
,
their
contemptible
speeches
of
me
,
their
furious
behauiors
,
&
these
are
the
marks
,
whereby
I
distinguish
those
whom
I
accuse
from
those
whom
I
cleare
.
And
,
here
are
no
personall
Notions
,
whereby
the
person
of
any
perticuler
man
is
vninstly
desamed
(
for
publikely
to
accuse
any
one
in
that
kind
vntill
Authority
require
it
,
is
both
vnlawfull
&
vncharitable
)
But
these
are
markes
of
quality
,
which
if
any
man
haue
vpon
him
(
especially
being
thus
forewarned
)
it
is
his
owne
fault
if
his
disgrace
follow
.
And
I
do
no
greater
wrong
in
saying
he
that
doth
this
or
thus
,
is
my
malitious
enimie
;
then
in
affyrming
,
that
he
who
stealeth
is
a
Theefe
.
But
,
these
rules
do
but
only
marke
my
freinds
from
my
Foes
among
the
Stationers
:
Because
therefore
,
I
haue
charged
them
in
generall
with
some
abuses
publikely
iniurious
;
I
will
declare
alsoe
,
how
such
as
are
to
be
approoued
blamelesse
among
them
,
shal
be
knowne
from
the
rest
;
by
expressing
the
trne
definition
of
an
honest
Stationer
;
&
the
liuely
Charecter
of
his
contrary
.
Whom
,
for
difference
sake
,
I
call
a
meere
Stationer
.
An
honest
Stationer
is
he
,
that
exercizeth
his
Mystery
(
whether
it
be
in
printing
,
bynding
,
or
selling
of
Bookes
)
with
more
respect
to
the
glory
of
God
,
&
the
publike
aduantage
,
then
to
his
owne
commodity
:
&
is
both
an
ornament
,
&
a
profitable
member
in
a
ciuill
Commonwealth
.
He
is
the
Caterer
that
gathers
together
prouision
to
satisfy
the
curious
appetite
of
the
Soule
,
&
is
carefull
to
his
powre
that
whatsoeuer
he
prouides
shal
be
such
as
may
not
poyson
or
distemper
the
vnderstanding
.
And
,
seeing
the
State
intrusteth
him
with
the
disposing
of
those
Bookes
,
which
may
both
profitt
&
hurt
,
as
they
are
applyed
,
(
like
a
discreet
Apothecary
in
selling
poysnous
druggs
)
he
obserues
by
whom
,
&
to
what
purpose
,
such
bookes
are
likely
to
be
bought
vp
,
before
he
will
deliuer
them
out
of
his
hands
.
If
he
be
a
Printer
,
he
makes
conscience
to
exemplefy
his
Coppy
fayrely
,
&
truly
.
If
he
be
a
Booke-bynder
;
he
is
carefull
his
worke
may
bee
strong
&
seruiceable
.
If
he
be
a
seller
of
Bookes
,
he
is
no
meere
Bookeseller
(
that
is
)
one
who
selleth
meerely
ynck
&
paper
bundled
vp
together
for
his
owne
aduantage
only
;
but
he
is
the
Chapman
of
Arts
,
of
wisdome
,
&
of
much
experience
for
a
litle
money
.
He
would
not
publish
a
booke
tending
to
schisme
,
or
prophannesse
▪
for
the
greatest
gain
:
&
if
you
see
in
his
shopp
,
any
bookes
vaine
or
impertinent
;
it
is
not
so
much
to
be
imputed
his
fault
,
as
to
the
vanity
of
the
Tymes
:
For
when
bookes
come
forth
allowed
by
authority
,
he
holds
it
his
duty
,
rather
to
sell
them
,
then
to
censure
them
:
Yet
,
he
meddles
as
little
as
he
can
,
with
such
as
he
is
truly
perswaded
are
pernitious
,
or
altogether
vnprofitable
.
The
reputation
of
Schollers
,
is
a●…
deare
vnto
him
as
his
owne
:
For
,
he
acknowledgeth
,
that
from
them
,
his
Mystery
had
both
begining
and
meanes
of
continuance
.
He
heartely
loues
&
seekes
the
prosperity
of
his
owne
Corporation
▪
Yet
he
would
not
iniure
the
Vniuersityes
,
to
advantage
it
,
norbe
soe
sawcie
as
to
make
comparisons
betweene
them
.
He
loues
a
good
Author
as
his
Brother
,
and
willbe
ready
to
yeeld
him
the
due
portion
of
his
labors
,
without
wrangling
.
When
he
comes
to
be
Maister
or
Warden
of
his
Company
,
he
labors
truly
to
rectify
what
is
amisse
;
but
fyndes
so
many
peruerseones
,
and
so
few
of
his
good
mind
,
that
his
yeare
is
out
,
before
he
cann
bring
any
remedy
to
passe
.
He
greeues
for
those
Abuses
which
haue
bene
offred
,
to
me
,
&
other
Authors
;
but
fynding
that
by
speaking
on
our
behalfes
he
is
likely
to
bring
himselfe
into
an
inconuenience
without
profitt
to
vs
;
he
prayes
in
●…ilence
for
amendment
,
and
that
God
would
not
lay
to
the
charge
of
the
whole
Corporation
,
that
which
but
some
among
them
are
guilty
of
.
He
feares
none
of
those
reproofes
which
are
to
be
found
in
this
booke
:
For
,
he
knowes
himselfe
cleare
,
and
is
resolued
to
make
sale
of
it
so
it
come
forth
with
allowance
from
Authority
.
In
a
word
,
he
is
such
a
man
that
the
State
ought
to
cherish
him
;
Schollers
to
loue
him
;
good
Customers
to
frequent
his
shopp
;
and
the
whole
Company
of
Stationers
to
pray
for
him
;
For
,
it
is
for
the
sake
of
such
as
he
,
that
they
haue
subsisted
,
and
prospered
thus
long
.
And
thus
,
you
haue
the
true
discription
of
such
a
Stationer
as
I
exempt
from
my
reprofes
;
now
followes
the
Charecter
of
him
,
at
whose
reformation
I
haue
aymed
.
A
meere
Stationer
is
he
that
imagines
he
was
borne
altogether
for
himselfe
,
and
exercizeth
his
Mystery
without
any
respect
either
to
the
glory
of
God
,
or
the
publike
aduantage
.
For
which
cause
,
he
is
one
of
the
most
pernitious
superfluities
in
a
Christian
gouerment
,
and
may
be
well
termed
the
Deuills
seedman
;
seeing
he
is
the
aptest
Instrument
to
sowe
schismes
,
heresies
,
scandalls
,
and
seditions
through
the
world
.
What
booke
soeuer
he
may
haue
hope
to
gaine
by
,
he
will
divulge
;
though
it
contayne
matter
against
his
Prince
,
against
the
State
,
or
blasphemy
against
God
;
And
all
his
excuse
wil
be
▪
that
he
knew
not
it
comprehended
any
such
matter
.
For
(
giue
him
his
right
)
he
scarcely
reads
ouer
one
page
of
a
booke
in
seauen
yeare
,
except
it
be
some
such
history
as
the
Wise
men
of
Gotham
;
and
that
he
doth
to
furnish
himselfe
with
some
foolish
conceits
to
be
thought
facetious
.
He
prayseth
no
booke
,
but
what
sells
well
,
and
that
must
be
his
owne
Coppy
too
or
els
he
will
haue
some
flirt
at
it
:
No
matter
,
though
there
be
no
cause
;
For
,
he
knowes
he
shall
not
be
questioned
for
what
hee
sayes
;
or
if
he
be
,
his
impudence
is
enough
to
outface
it
.
What
he
beleeues
is
prepared
for
him
,
in
the
next
world
,
I
know
not
▪
but
,
for
his
enriching
in
this
life
,
he
is
of
so
large
a
faith
,
that
he
seemes
to
beleeue
,
all
Creatures
and
Actions
of
the
world
,
were
ordayned
for
no
other
purpose
but
to
make
bookes
vpon
,
to
encrease
hi●…
trade
:
And
if
another
man
,
of
his
small
vnderstanding
,
should
heare
him
plead
his
owne
supposed
right
where
none
might
contradict
;
He
would
halfe
thinke
,
that
all
our
Vniuersityes
,
and
Schooles
of
Learning
,
were
erected
to
no
other
end
,
but
to
breed
Schollers
to
study
for
the
enriching
of
the
Company
of
Stationers
.
If
an
Author
out
of
meere
necessity
,
do
but
procure
meanes
to
make
sale
of
his
owne
booke
,
or
to
peruent
the
combinations
of
such
as
he
,
by
some
Royall
&
lawfull
priueledge
:
He
presently
cryes
it
downe
for
a
Monopoly
;
affyrming
that
men
of
his
profession
may
go
hang
themselues
,
if
that
be
suffred
.
Marry
;
Authors
haue
a
long
tyme
preserued
a
very
thankfull
generation
of
them
from
hanging
,
if
they
cannot
afford
them
one
booke
of
ten
Millions
to
releeue
them
withall
in
a
case
of
need
:
&
when
that
booke
was
the
Authors
owne
alsoe
,
&
no
part
of
the
Stationers
former
liuelyhood
.
This
is
iust
as
reasonable
a
complaint
,
as
if
a
Company
of
Haglers
should
preferr
a
bill
against
the
Cuntry
Farmers
▪
for
bringing
their
owne
Corne
&
other
prouisions
to
the
next
markett
.
He
will
fawne
vpon
Authors
at
his
first
acquintance
,
&
ring
them
to
his
hiue
,
by
the
promising
sounds
of
some
good
entertainement
;
but
assoone
as
they
haue
prepared
the
hony
to
his
hand
,
he
driues
the
Bees
to
seek
another
Stall
.
If
he
be
a
Printer
,
so
his
worke
haue
such
appearance
of
being
well
done
,
that
he
may
receaue
his
hyre
,
he
cares
not
how
vnworkmanlike
it
be
parformed
;
nor
how
many
faults
he
lett
goe
to
the
Authors
discredit
,
&
the
readers
trouble
.
If
his
employment
be
in
bynding
bookes
;
soe
they
will
hold
together
but
till
his
worke
Maister
hath
sold
them
,
he
desireth
not
,
they
should
last
a
weeke
longer
:
For
,
by
that
meanes
a
booke
of
a
Crowne
is
mard
in
one
Moneth
,
which
would
last
a
hundred
yeares
,
if
it
had
2d.
more
workmanshipp
;
&
so
,
their
gaine
&
employment
is
encreased
to
the
subiects
losse
.
If
he
be
a
seller
of
Bookes
;
he
makes
no
conscience
what
trash
he
putts
off
;
nor
how
much
he
takes
,
for
that
which
is
worth
nothing
.
He
will
not
stick
to
belye
his
Authors
intentions
,
or
to
publish
secretly
that
there
is
somewhat
in
his
new
ymprinted
books
,
against
the
State
,
or
some
Honorable
personages
;
that
so
,
they
being
questioned
his
ware
may
haue
the
quicker
sale
.
He
makes
no
scruple
to
put
out
the
right
Authors
Name
,
&
insert
another
in
the
second
edition
of
a
Booke
;
And
when
the
impression
of
some
pamphlet
lyes
vpon
his
hands
,
to
imprint
new
Titles
for
yt
,
(
and
so
take
mens
moneyes
twice
or
thrice
,
for
the
same
matter
vnder
diuerse
names
)
is
no
iniury
in
his
opinion
.
If
he
gett
any
written
Coppy
into
his
powre
,
likely
to
be
vendible
▪
whether
the
Author
be
willing
or
no
,
he
will
publish
it
;
And
it
shall
be
contriued
and
named
alsoe
,
according
to
his
owne
pleasure
:
which
is
the
reason
,
so
many
good
Bookes
come
forth
imperfect
,
and
with
foolish
titles
.
Nay
,
he
oftentymes
giues
bookes
such
names
as
in
his
opinion
will
make
them
saleable
,
when
there
is
litle
or
nothing
in
the
whole
volume
sutable
to
such
a
Tytle
.
If
he
be
none
of
the
Assistance
of
his
Company
he
ordinarily
rayles
on
their
partiallyty
in
m●…niging
of
the
Kings
Priveledges
or
the
generall
stock
;
but
,
this
he
doth
more
in
enuy
,
them
in
loue
to
vpright
dealing
:
For
,
when
he
comes
to
those
places
(
into
which
his
very
troublesomnesse
sometyme
helpes
him
the
sooner
)
he
makes
all
worse
then
before
,
&
playes
the
knaue
CUM
PRIVILEGIO
.
He
is
then
bound
to
pray
for
the
poore
,
much
more
then
they
are
,
for
him
▪
For
,
they
are
indeed
his
Benefactors
.
He
will
be
ready
vpon
all
occasions
,
to
boast
of
the
200.
li:
a
yeare
,
which
is
giuen
among
their
pensioner●…
:
but
,
he
hath
not
thankfulnesse
enough
to
tell
any
man
,
that
it
ariseth
out
of
his
Majesties
Priviledges
bestowed
for
that
purpose
,
nor
how
many
thousand
pounds
are
yearely
made
thereof
beside
.
If
he
once
gett
to
be
an
officer
in
the
Society
;
he
forgetts
to
speak
in
the
first
personn
for
euer
after
;
but
(
like
a
Prince
)
sayes
,
we
will
,
&
wee
do
this
&c.
He
thinks
vpon
nothing
more
then
to
keepe
vnder
the
inferiors
of
the
Corporation
,
&
to
drawe
the
profitt
of
the
Kings
Priveledges
to
his
priuate
vse
.
He
stands
infeare
of
nobody
●…ut
the
Archb:
of
Canterbury
,
the
Bishop
of
London
,
&
the
high
Commission
,
&
loues
nobody
but
himselfe
.
I
cannot
deuise
what
his
Religion
is
nor
he
neither
(
I
think
.
)
For
,
what
sector
profession
soeuer
his
customer
is
of
,
he
will
furnish
him
with
Bookes
tending
to
his
opinions
.
To
a
Papist
hee
rayles
vpon
Protestants
;
to
Protestants
he
speakes
ill
of
Papists
;
&
to
a
Browinst
,
he
reuiles
them
both
.
Yet
,
I
dare
say
this
for
him
,
that
he
is
an
enimy
to
the
alteration
of
Religeon
in
this
Commonwealth
,
because
he
feares
it
would
spoyle
their
Priueledge
,
for
Dauids
Psalmes
in
English
meeter
,
or
hinder
the
reprinting
of
many
vendible
coppyes
.
Marry
a
Tolleration
he
would
hold
well
with
all
,
soe
he
might
haue
but
the
sole
printing
of
the
Masse-booke
or
our
Ladyes
Psaltet
.
He
will
take
vpon
him
to
censure
a
booke
as
arrogantly
a●…
if
he
had
read
it
;
or
were
a
man
of
some
vnderstanding
.
He
speakes
of
reuerend
Doctors
,
as
disdaynfully
as
of
schoole
boyes
;
And
mentiones
the
Vniuersityes
with
no
more
respect
,
then
if
all
their
famous
Colledges
were
but
so
many
Almeshouses
maintained
out
of
the
Stationers
Hall
.
When
he
shall
heare
me
or
any
other
object
those
Abuses
,
which
some
of
his
Company
haue
offred
me
to
my
face
;
he
will
vnciuelly
giue
the
lye
,
&
iustify
the
contrary
,
as
confidently
,
as
if
he
had
bene
present
at
all
tymes
,
&
in
all
places
.
He
is
no
more
pittyfull
to
a
pore
man
that
falls
into
his
powre
,
then
a
hungry
Beare
to
a
Lambe
.
When
he
spakes
of
him
whom
he
loues
not
,
it
is
vsually
with
as
much
contempt
(
of
what
quality
soeuer
the
other
be
of
)
as
if
he
were
one
of
the
Almesmen
of
his
Company
.
If
he
come
among
the
rest
of
his
fraternity
about
any
controuersy
betweene
them
and
others
;
he
will
speake
any
vntruth
that
may
aduantage
his
owne
side
:
For
,
if
the
matter
should
require
to
be
iustifyde
,
he
knowes
that
among
many
the
speaker
will
hardly
be
found
out
,
&
that
when
the
lye
is
deuided
among
them
all
,
there
will
not
fall
much
shame
vpon
any
one
man
.
He
will
allow
of
no
Priveledges
which
the
Kings
Majestie
shall
vouchsafe
concerning
bookes
,
vnles
he
may
be
interested
in
the
best
part
of
the
profitt
:
Yea
,
rather
than
those
which
are
bestowed
vpon
his
owne
Corporation
shal
be
disposed
of
for
the
benefite
of
the
generallity
,
according
to
his
Majesties
intention
;
he
will
go
neare
to
do
his
best
to
forfeit
them
altogether
:
For
,
he
will
at
any
tyme
suffer
some
mischeese
himselfe
to
do
another
a
great
spight
.
He
will
sweare
the
peace
or
good
behauior
against
any
one
whom
he
is
disposed
to
trouble
,
though
there
be
no
cause
;
And
if
he
may
haue
but
some
of
his
Brotherhood
to
stand
among
;
he
will
not
stick
wilfully
to
misinforme
the
whole
Court
of
Aldermen
to
procure
the
committment
of
such
pore
men
as
he
prosecutes
.
And
this
is
one
of
his
infallable
markes
;
if
he
preuaile
in
a
businesse
,
or
haue
but
any
hope
of
getting
the
better
;
the
Tauerne
is
the
Temple
where
he
giueth
his
God
praise
:
Thither
he
presently
repayres
to
offer
vp
the
sacrifize
of
fooles
;
and
perhapps
is
ledd
from
thence
in
slate
,
betweene
two
supporters
(
Porters
I
should
haue
said
)
to
his
owne
howse
,
where
he
vtters
his
stomack
to
his
wife
and
famely
.
He
is
so
extreame
guilty
,
and
so
fearefull
that
most
of
these
markes
are
to
be
found
vpon
him
,
that
all
his
freinds
shall
neuer
perswade
him
,
but
this
Character
was
made
by
him
;
and
therefore
,
he
will
take
it
to
himselfe
though
he
be
one
whom
I
neuer
knew
nor
heard
of
.
He
will
condemne
the
Stationer
that
sells
this
Apology
for
a
faulse
brother
;
and
(
if
it
be
possible
to
drawe
the
rest
to
be
so
indiscreet
)
he
will
gett
the
whole
Company
to
take
this
discription
as
an
abuse
to
their
Mystery
;
but
,
they
wil
be
better
aduis'd
.
He
will
bestow
both
vpon
me
,
and
vpon
this
booke
,
all
the
foule
termes
he
cann
inuent
;
or
giue
out
,
perhapps
,
that
it
is
nothing
sutable
to
that
Mynd
which
I
haue
expresse
in
my
Motto
:
But
,
let
him
examine
them
together
,
&
he
shall
fynde
they
disagree
not
in
a
word
.
He
will
much
insist
vpon
all
those
bitter
reproo●…es
which
I
haue
vsed
,
and
be
very
sensible
of
them
(
noe
doubt
)
because
they
touch
himselfe
:
but
,
those
iniuryes
which
are
the
cause
of
them
,
he
will
neuer
mention
.
He
will
tell
his
Companions
,
that
they
haue
Boyes
in
the
Church-yard
,
able
to
answeare
all
this
:
and
(
it
is
odes
)
but
he
will
carpe
al●…oe
,
at
some
want
of
witt
or
learning
in
these
expressions
;
as
if
there
needed
any
great
witt
,
or
learning
to
be
vsed
,
in
bidding
a
Dogg
come
out
.
These
pills
may
,
perhapps
,
stirr
his
humors
,
but
they
will
not
purge
away
one
dramm
of
his
corruptions
;
For
,
he
is
so
blinded
with
coueteousnesse
&
selfe
will
,
that
(
to
change
his
mind
)
Noyse
will
preuaile
with
him
,
as
much
as
reason
:
&
therefore
,
this
which
I
haue
written
,
was
neuer
intented
to
satisfy
him
,
but
others
.
He
truly
resembles
the
Ephesian
Siluersimthes
;
&
rather
then
his
Mystery
should
decay
,
would
preferr
Paganisme
before
Christianity
,
prophane
Ballads
before
Hymnes
praysing
God
;
&
,
that
which
he
hath
not
ability
to
compasse
by
Reasons
,
he
will
attempt
by
vproares
.
To
conclude
,
he
is
a
dangerous
excrement
,
worthy
to
be
cutt
off
,
by
the
State
;
to
be
detested
of
all
Schollers
;
to
be
shun'd
of
all
the
people
;
&
deserues
to
be
curst
,
&
expeld
out
of
the
Company
of
Stationers
.
For
,
by
the
coueteousnesse
,
cruelty
,
&
vnconscionablenesse
of
such
as
he
;
a
flourishing
&
well
esteemed
Corporation
,
is
in
danger
to
come
to
ruine
,
&
disgrace
.
This
man
,
with
such
as
he
,
are
those
whom
I
haue
declamed
against
in
this
discourse
,
&
no
other
;
nor
will
I
,
that
my
generall
accusations
shall
,
in
part
,
or
in
the
whole
be
imputed
to
any
man
in
perticuler
;
but
to
him
that
shall
apply
vnto
himselfe
this
Character
,
or
haue
it
prooued
to
be
true
vpon
him
by
apparant
testimony
.
For
,
it
shall
satisfy
me
enough
(
&
it
shall
do
the
Commonwealth
good
seruice
)
if
by
this
satyricall
discription
of
a
bade
Stationer
,
and
my
definition
of
a
good
one
,
those
things
which
are
amise
may
be
amended
hereafter
.
And
this
is
an
easy
and
warrantable
way
of
Correction
.
For
▪
I
do
not
marke
them
out
by
their
redd
Noses
,
or
corpulent
paunches
(
or
such
like
personall
defects
)
which
they
cannot
remedy
(
as
some
wonld
haue
done
)
but
by
their
vices
which
they
ought
to
giue
ouer
.
What
an
old
Poet
once
said
,
is
yet
in
force
.
—
—
LICUIT
,
SEMPERQUE
LICEBIT
PARCERE
PERSONIS
DICERE
DE
VITIIS
.
It
shall
be
lawfull
euer
;
and
hath
byn
To
spare
the
personns
,
and
to
touch
the
syn
.
I
ha●…e
taken
that
Authors
word
,
and
put
his
warrant
often
tymes
in
execution
;
and
(
though
I
haue
smarted
for
it
)
neuer
was
,
nor
euer
will
be
driuen
from
this
course
of
proceeding
against
Male
factors
;
vntill
that
foresaid
Author
come
back
and
deny
his
warrant
.
Blame
me
not
,
if
I
seeme
bitter
to
such
as
these
▪
for
,
their
disease
needs
it
:
I
haue
had
meanes
to
know
them
perfectly
;
&
was
compelled
to
search
into
the
very
marrow
of
their
Mystery
:
and
when
through
my
loue
to
a
carnall
rest
,
I
became
loth
to
meddle
with
such
a
nest
of
hornets
(
but
to
suffer
an
inconuenience
rather
)
they
were
so
●…oolishly
confident
,
that
they
stung
me
to
it
.
And
doubtles
,
it
was
permitted
by
the
prouidence
of
God
,
that
their
wickednesse
might
come
to
light
,
before
it
should
occasion
greater
troubles
.
Yea
,
perhapps
,
I
haue
bene
trayned
vp
all
my
life
tyme
in
afflictions
,
&
haue
heretofore
suffred
concerning
bookes
,
partly
to
experience
me
in
their
Abuses
;
&
partly
to
enable
me
to
beare
out
the
fury
of
such
a
powrefull
multitude
as
doth
now
oppose
me
.
Many
men
of
good
sufficiency
,
do
wonder
(
as
I
heare
)
what
abuses
worthy
all
these
words
cann
be
found
among
the
Stationers
.
For
,
alas
think
they
;
those
do
but
sell
bookes
to
such
as
come
for
them
;
&
are
a
harmelesse
kind
of
people
by
whom
(
to
their
vnderstanding
)
the
Commonwealth
can
receaue
no
great
preiudice
,
in
any
matter
concerning
their
Mystery
.
But
,
when
they
haue
read
ouer
this
,
it
will
begett
another
opinion
:
If
not
;
my
next
discouery
shall
.
For
,
I
cann
,
yet
launce
deeper
,
&
make
it
euident
to
the
capacity
of
euery
common
man
;
that
such
as
those
whom
I
haue
marked
out
,
are
they
who
are
the
principall
dispersers
of
heresyes
,
&
the
prime
disturbers
of
vnity
in
the
Church
.
I
cann
demonstrate
,
that
they
are
most
tymes
occasioners
of
those
grudgings
&
discontentments
which
do
other
while
distemper
the
minds
of
the
people
.
That
much
trouble
to
the
State
,
is
procured
by
them
;
that
they
are
the
likelyest
instruments
to
kindle
factions
,
&
stirr
vp
sedition
;
that
they
haue
invoulued
and
obscured
the
certaine
tenents
of
our
Church
,
among
such
a
multitude
of
the
priuate
fancies
and
opinions
of
vpstart
writers
;
that
the
Common
people
scarce
knowe
what
principles
wee
professe
;
and
our
Aduersaryes
take
aduantage
,
out
of
their
vnallowed
Pamphlets
,
to
impute
to
the
Church
of
England
,
what
absurdityes
they
please
.
I
cann
make
it
euident
they
haue
so
pestered
their
printing
houses
,
&
shopps
with
fruitlesse
volumes
,
that
the
Auncient
&
renouned
Authors
are
almost
buried
among
them
as
forgotten
;
and
that
they
haue
so
much
worke
to
preferr
their
termely
Pamphlets
,
which
they
prouide
to
take
vp
the
peoples
money
,
and
tyme
;
that
there
is
neither
of
them
,
left
to
bestow
on
a
profitable
booke
:
soe
they
who
desire
knowledge
are
still
kept
ignorant
;
their
ignorance
encreaseth
their
affection
to
vaine
toyes
;
their
affection
makes
the
Stationer
to
encrease
his
prouision
of
such
stuffe
;
and
at
last
you
shall
see
nothing
to
be
sould
amongst
vs
,
but
Curranto's
,
Beauis
of
Southamptonn
or
such
trumpery
.
The
Arts
,
are
already
almost
lost
among
the
writings
of
Mountebanck
Authors
.
For
,
if
any
one
among
vs
would
Study
Phisick
,
the
Mathamaticks
,
Poetry
,
or
any
of
the
liberall
sciences
,
they
haue
in
their
warehouses
so
many
volumes
of
quacksaluing
recepts
;
of
faulse
propositions
;
and
of
inartificall
Ryminngs
(
of
which
last
sort
they
haue
some
of
mine
there
God
forgiue
me
)
that
vnles
we
be
directed
by
some
Artist
,
we
shall
spend
halfe
our
Age
before
we
cann
find
those
Authors
which
are
worth
our
readings
.
For
,
what
need
the
Stationer
be
at
the
charge
of
printing
the
labors
of
him
that
is
Maister
of
his
Art
,
&
will
require
that
respect
which
his
paine
deserueth
?
Seeing
he
cann
hyre
for
a
matter
of
40
shillings
,
some
needy
IGNORAMUS
to
scrible
vpon
the
same
subject
,
and
by
a
large
promising
title
,
make
it
as
vendible
for
an
impression
or
two
,
as
though
it
had
the
quintessence
of
all
Art
?
I
cann
make
it
appeare
alsoe
,
that
they
are
the
Cheefe
hinderers
of
the
aduancement
of
our
language
,
the
principall
peruerters
of
good
manners
;
and
the
prime
causers
of
all
that
irreligious
prophanenesse
which
is
found
among
vs
.
And
,
I
doe
foresee
,
that
if
they
proceed
as
hitherto
they
haue
done
,
they
will
be
the
ruine
of
their
owne
Mystery
,
&
bring
an
invndation
of
Barbarisme
vpon
all
his
Majesties
Kingdomes
,
which
God
diuert
.
These
things
haue
I
discouered
;
&
with
a
mind
neither
malitio●…sly
bent
to
the
ruine
of
the
Corporation
of
Stationers
,
or
desirous
of
the
shame
or
confusion
of
any
one
member
thereof
:
but
,
(
whatsoeuer
some
among
them
conceaue
)
I
ayme
rather
at
the
profitt
of
the
one
,
&
the
reformation
of
the
other
.
And
that
this
may
appeare
to
be
true
.
I
will
in
due
tyme
shew
,
that
I
haue
sought
as
much
how
to
finde
a
gentle
plaster
to
cure
those
vl●…rs
,
as
to
make
a
sharpe
instrument
to
search
them
.
For
,
if
I
may
be
heard
without
preiudice
;
I
cann
declare
by
what
meanes
,
and
how
,
the
Corporation
of
Stationers
may
be
hereafter
acquited
of
all
those
scandalls
,
that
some
corrupt
members
thereof
,
haue
brought
vpon
it
;
How
,
the
repinings
and
discontentments
which
are
among
themselues
,
may
be
quieted
:
How
,
all
my
inivryes
may
be
satisfied
,
to
my
contentment
,
without
their
damage
;
and
how
,
all
the
publike
abuses
mentioned
in
this
discourse
,
shall
be
in
some
good
measure
preuented
,
for
euer
hereafter
:
to
the
Kings
Maiesties
great
content
,
to
the
avoyding
of
much
trouble
heretofore
occasioned
to
the
State
;
to
the
good
likeing
of
both
Vniuersityes
,
to
the
profit
ease
&
credit
of
the
Stationers
themselues
;
to
the
furtherance
of
Christian
peace
&
v●…ity
in
the
Church
,
to
the
preuention
of
many
publik
and
priuate
inconueniences
,
and
in
a
word
,
to
the
glory
of
God
,
and
to
the
honor
and
benifite
,
of
all
his
Majesties
Dominions
.
And
now
I
haue
done
troubling
your
RRces
for
this
tyme
:
Though
I
bent
my
bow
to
shoot
in
my
owne
defence
;
yet
I
haue
stuck
my
arrowes
vpon
a
publike
enimie
.
Now
you
haue
heard
me
,
healpe
,
or
leaue
me
to
my selfe
as
you
shall
think
fitting
:
For
,
I
haue
in
euery
circumstance
honestly
deliuered
my
Conscience
;
and
I
know
God
will
deliuer
me
.
Nec
Habeo
,
nec
Careo
,
nec
Curo
.