3. De Juventute.
4. De Peccato.
5. De Virili Aetate.
6. De Redemptione Hominis.
Cujus opus, studio cur tantum quaeris inani?
Qui legis, et frueris, feceris esse tuum.
Londini: Typis Johannis Legati, et venundantur per Thomam Underhill sub signo Biblii in vico Anglice dicto Woodstreet. MDCXLIX.”
Here we have the very useful addition that it was published by Thomas Underhill, of Wood Street.
(preface pp. vii–viii). “... That such a wide-reaching, learned, and varied work should have been allowed to remain unappreciated and utterly ignored for more than two hundred and fifty years is certainly a very surprising literary fact....
“The critics seem to have been both blind and deaf. They gave no encouraging praise, and no disheartening condemnation. They simply took no notice. And so this great work of seventeenth-century art vanished from the sight of men. A few copies were put away in college libraries, where they rested for years undisturbed and dust-covered in their original positions, and have so continued to rest for two centuries and a half, lost to the world.”