Transcriber’s Note

Every attention was paid to retaining the spelling and punctuation of the original, with a few exceptions, noted below.

On occasion, obvious printer’s errors have been modified, e.g. the repetition of words or syllables at line breaks.

The spelling has been left intact, except where there are obvious printer’s errors, or where a more conventional spelling is employed in every other instance. Minor inconsistencies in punctuation have also been corrected, without further mention.

On p. 223, the Latin quotation from Petronius includes the name ‘Aerisium’, which, in the following translation is given as ‘Acresius’. The entire passage from ‘It can make knees bow...’, including the citation from Petronius, seems to have been cribbed from Owen Feltham’s Resolves: divine, morall and politicall, where ‘Acrisium’ appears. Feltham died the year our volume was published, and his Resolves was a very popular in the day and continued to be republished into the 19th century.

The following table summarizes the issues encountered, and their resolution:

p. x	inclina[na]tion	Removed.
p. 10	they found the contrary to [to] their cost	Removed, line break repetition.
p. 33	of such as [as] should live	Removed.
p. 38	Dicision	sic. ‘Division’
p. 42	Water to Wat[a/e]r,	Corrected.
p. 57	transpla[n]ted	Added.
p. 73	conclude wi[l/t]h the Poet	Corrected.
p. 130	socie[t/i]y	Corrected.
p. 131	set [own by and] ancient Patrico	sic. ‘down by an’
p. 204	this Mys~~tery~~	Corrected, line break repetition.
p. 214	them as[ ]soon	Added.
p. 223	A[c/e]risium	Corrected.
p. 365	acquaintance, [tance]	Removed, line break confusion.
p. 376	I [I] seeing this	Removed, line break repetition