We fear to warrant in our native place!”
Whitney inscribes a frontispiece or dedication of his work with the letters, D. O. M.,—i.e., Deo, Optimo, Maximo,—“To God, best, greatest,”—and writes,—
D. O. M.
Since man is fraile, and all his thoughtes are sinne,
And of him ſelfe he can no good inuent,
Then euerie one, before they oughte beginne,
Should call on God, from whome all grace is ſent:
So, I beſeeche, that he the ſame will ſende,
That, to his praiſe I maie beginne, and ende.
Very similar sentiments are enunciated in several of the dramas; as in Twelfth Night (act iii. sc. 4, l. 340, vol. iii. p. 285),—