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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96438	Zootomia, or, Observations of the present manners of the English: briefly anatomizing the living by the dead. With an usefull detection of the mountebanks of both sexes. / By Richard Whitlock, M.D. late fellow of All-Souls Colledge in Oxford.	Whitlock, Richard, b. 1615 or 16.	1654 (1654)	Wing W2030; Thomason E1478_2; ESTC R204093	231,674	616

Humour I answer the Stationer my Porter mistook the delivery of the Letter my Book for it was directed onely to the Candid Interpreter of modest Endeavours not Exacter of Impossibles or unseemlies viz. Perfection as the one and to generall Compliance as the other To all gaping Expectaltees that look for more than here they are like to finde my Book replyeth with this its motto not queint but useful or not rare but honest at least in the Authors Iudgment and Intention and I will use the words of an Ingenuous Author of our own being so apt to my purpose I like much better to do well than talke well chusing rather to be beloved than admired aspiring to no more height than the comfort of a good conscience and doing good to some harme to none If my Essayes speak thus they speak as I would have them Thus far he as fit as if he spoke for me of any thing amongst them I will likewise add what Walafridus Strabo de rebus Ecclesiasticis said Si quid in hoc Lector placet assignare memento Id Domino quicquid displicet hocce mihi If any thing that 's good i'th'Book you see Ascribe to God but what distasts to mee I know there is not any one Divell compasseth the Earth more than that Erasmus speaketh of Adeo nunc in omnes omnia per universum Orbem grassatur comitata furiis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut non sit tutum ullum emittere Librum nisi Satellitio munitum The Devil Calumny saith he against all men and all things doth so rage in these dayes that it is not safe setting out any thing unguarded If the integrity of the End may plead for the Matter or Form of this Book I may hope absolution its chief Designe being to double the guards of the Negligent that suffer erroneous mis-judgings to surprize their Inadvertency or to awaken the lazie drousinesse of others that are loth to be rowz'd out of Errors pleasing dream and to correct the vanity of most that spend their time or thoughts on impertinencies besides or below the noble end their souls were destined for For two lengths I must insert these short Apologies the one of some of these following Discourses the other of this Preface the former need deterre no man if he be of my minde with whom the flatnesse or sharpnesse of an Author is in stead of Rests Indisposednesse in my self or a dull period in an Author maketh me turn down the leaf if my businesse do not as well as any Division of Sections or Chapters c. by much the younger brothers of writing it self and even in sacred Writ but of almost modern Authority Again the nature of this kinde of writing is like free speeches in the Parliament of Parnassus or Liberavi Animams whose length or shortnesse is from the Authors sense not any stint of Rule or Order For the length of the other this Preface it's Name were enough if we follow the Allegory of a Porch and Building I have I am sure come far short of Solomons proportion of twenty to sixty as it is observed by that Secretary to Wit Reverend Dr. Donne or if Reader thou be in the number of such as account Epistles and Prefaces materiall part of a Book And now I am excusing the Books Geometry give me leave to excuse its unexpected bulk and thicknesse from meer mistake that my writing had not been so close But I write not this nor the Book to any curious in the shapes outsides of Books or that think it necessary to a Books handsomnesse as well as womans to be slender in the waste but it is now past cure and must venture abroad with all its faults materiall or in printing which may be more then should by reason of my distance from the Presse Some principall Errata's are mentioned the rest an ordinary English Critique may correct in his reading I shall therefore conclude with letting thee know what Reader I slight and what I honour in the words of Erasmus in his Enchiridion Militis Chistiani Nil moror aut laudes levis aut convitia vulgi Pulchrum est vel doctis vel placuisse Piis Spe quoque majus erit mihi si contingat utrumque The flouts or th' praise o' th' vulgar I not weigh If Learn'd or Pious men content I may But O! if both a Joy unhop'd 't would be The good and good will of thee if thou be either of these is the Desire and Endeavour of Thy true honourer R. W. Decas 1. MALCHUS OR MISCONSTRVCTION MENS Words or Report of their Actions have fared hard since Mis-prision and Envy have dealt with Men as Peter with Malchus cut off their right Eares Affections alwayes cut off one and too oft the right We seldome reserve our Eare for the strangers much ●esse the Enemies Relation but Envy and Prejudice alwayes interpret worse than Babels Brick-layers Hee that is a bold Reprover of or Dissenter from the Worlds Dotages passeth for a Surly Michaiah or Cy●●call Dioge●●s Hee that is prudentially quiet under grand Alterations is a Tempori●er a Weather-Cock Hee that but moveth a Reprieve for Liberty or Religion is a Troubler of Israel A Mutinier not fit to live Hee that is not as Ceremonious as the whole Book of Leviticus or Durandus his Rationale is a Non-conformist and He that beleeveth some Ceremonies though not commanded the necessary Cloath's of Devotion or reckoneth them in the Number of Circumstances without which no Action can be individuated Hee that thus thinketh is a Popish and a Prelaticall Formalist He that Spitteth in the Church is irreverent and Hee that will not set his Horse there is needlesly Scrupulous Hee that Boweth to the Altar is Idol●trous and Hee that will not Cacar S● L' Altare according to the Italian Proverb untrusse on it is Superstitious Hee that forbeareth Wine for the same reason another drinketh it his Health Hee is precisely unsociable He that useth it to that other use God allotted it to ●●hilarate or drinketh not all his Wine before the Salt is taken away and only for Digestion Such a one is a Drunkard A Sot c. Or if between Meales if it be not Poculum Fraudis rather than Charitatis Some Bargaine alias over-reaching Cup Hee is an Ill-Husband and such like aspersions Thus fareth the Golden Meane through the misconstruction of the Extreams Well temper'd Zeale is Lukewarmnesse Devotion is Hypocrisy Charity Ostentation Constancy Obstinacy Gravity Pride Humility Abjection of Spirit and so go through the whole Parish of Vertues where Mis-prision and Envy are Gossips be sure the Child shall be nick-named What better resolve in this Case to steere the Prudent Man than that of Persius Nec Te quaesiveris extra I will not make Hue and Cry after my selfe abroad in the mis-judging World nor care what they think or say of Mee so it be not deservedly ill their good opinion if generall is