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The surfeit to A B C
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King, Philip, 1602 or 3-1667.; Kynder, Philip, b. 1597.
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Wing K515; ESTC R11694
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him And the particle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is derived from the primitive {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} quasi {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i.e. ipse the adverb hoc idem the same not varied with a periphrase hoc modo and the Greeks will admit of such adverbs as the Latine do not you may force one ipsissimè The Eucharist in the Primitive Church was celebrated with only repeating the Lords prayer St. Luke hath {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} say and no more The numerous volumes of the primitive Fathers in this doubt in reverence I spare to name them but let it be Plutarch or Plinie I much amaze at them all the sâ—eep-skins in a Region will not make Parchment for one fowle Copy 3000 at least In so much that I believe that posterity using the Criticisms of comparing stiles when the phrase did symphonize did bestow other mens writings to other Authors Classesses of most renown I could name some in these our very dayes that have written stiles masculine and sinewy Their methode matter and conceit rich pious reserched But I find upon every occasion they are pressing into the Press and so become exhausted grow enervate â—laccide have not their pristine vigour and vivacity I 'le pass them by and only meddle with them whose ashes are covered in the Flaminian fields such in times past was Barnaby Rich the Phiâ—oâ—ogist with his Motto Malo me divitem esse that boasted this was the 36 book writ by the Author Or old Mr. Barnard of Odcomb the Theologue that upon every occasion of controversie offered in those dayes which were many would ever be sure to be bobbing into print These were accompted in those days rare men but now an act of oblivion hath passed upon all their works And what stile and Authors the future age will produce and whether they will be perpetuate shall nothing trouble me Bellarmine and our Countriman Stapleton with some other Schoolmen I have read some part of them though but little or run over Voluminous men farced up with authorities and fathers gathered to their hands of which if they were devested they would appear but poor naked Sceletonsâ— Let them lie aside versing with Papists and Pitch are alike Knoxe the Scot an argument drawn from the notation of the name his Discipline hath begot so many knocks that I absolutely renounce him The Attick Archeologist full of reading paines and learning hath moulded up a piece of Antiquity extracted for the most part from the Poets Lyâ—ophron Sophocles Aristophanes Enripides and the Scholiasts aâ—d obtrudes upon us these to be the general customes of the Athenians As if one in future age should make all England in ages past to be a Bartholomewâ— Faire because Ben. Iohnson hath writ it Or that the condition of all our English women may be drawn out of Shackespeers merry wifes of Windsor or the religion of the low-Countrimen from Mr. Aminadab in the Alchymist Or from Massingers Mr. Greedy a hungry Justice of Peace in Nottingham-shire Or Will-doe the Parson of Gotham the Condition of all the County These may be applyed to Rosinus and Goodwins Roman Antiquities Oh! my left side now I quarrel with mine old shooes Antiquities for why should I value them better then my new ones only they will serve to burn by the fire side and save my shins rather then walk abroad a la-mode according to the times For Armory and Algebra I leave them to great men by the armes in a Church window they may know the tenure of lands by Algebra the value of their Leases and monies Hold me not vain glorious I speak it to my shame Ptolomies Copernicus Scenerus Q. Elizabeth's the Prutenick tables Tycho I have calculated by them all Vain man that I am I was not born to that fortune to be a meer contemplative man And the Period of these Sciences is to make a ridiculous Almanack or calculate a Nativity full of paines full of falshood docti errores mendacia deliciis plena operosi â—ndi and to the prudent And for Geometry and Trigonometry how ravishing soever in the reading I was not born to so low a fortune as to lead the divel in a chain The art of Shadowes I know well and have added new repertions to find a Polaritie by the Suns ray to know the less then a minute by a Horizontal to take the altitude of the Sun or stars exactly by a house end Simple man that I am quoth Caxton these are fit for none but a brother Squire of the Clock-house to attend Bow-bell I have read some part of the translation de ovo and the generation of Animals exquisite bawdery the man is horrible obscene and scurrilous yet with the lawes and rules of nature hee is mad with reason and maintaines Aretinisme in the abstract by the highest Philosophy Had they kept it lockt up in the Latine Vestery and none but the Arch Flamines of AEsculapius his Temple to have entred into it the piece had been incomparable Your Romanâ—es and Gazettes are the only harmless useful readings there is pleasure in the reading and nothing to burden the memory after For to speak the Archadias Phrase is an affectednesse distasted by all and to relate a story from thence is ridiculous to the prudent only you may say such is a pretty piece and such a pretty passage I could save you a great deal of labour in buying and reading your Criticks or Comments upon any Authors Servius Beroaldus Agellius Varro Vitruvius Iulius Pollux your Civilians de rerum verborum significatione Vlpian Terentius Cicilius Martianus and a 100 more You may find all these gathered together in a handful in Holyocks Dictionary Oh! how the wind riseth and fumes into my head your Statute books your Lawes civil and common you may lay them aside for every quarter we have a repeal and why should I read them when they will not serve for practice For your â—hysitians and Philosophers I find them all to be but Friday mornings and Sundayes in the afternoon nothing but repetitions and elutriations Only sometimes varying the methode and sometimes the Phrase and many times like Plagiaries stealing whole pages without commemoration of his Author And it will anger a man that within less then an age Burgerdicius should shoulder out my old friend Keckerman And Sennertus my dear Fernelius and my illuminate Doctor Leonard what hopes of eternity shall our best Authors have I compare Virgil and Silvester and write them absolutely the best Poets in their respective languages Silvester had all from Dubartâ—â—â— Virgil from Homerâ— if my assertion faile Macrobius will attest itâ—Homer from an Egyptian Poet and Duâ—bartas from an old Latine Copy which I have seen composed as thought by some religious man in a riming hexameter I far prefer Homers Vlysses before Don Quixot as the more exquisite piece of Drollery Besides the phrase in the bare Latine