The elder Samuel Austin, a Cornishman, of Exeter, was a very serious person who wrote, and after difficulties got published in 1629, Austin's Urania, or the Heavenly Muse, with the most unreasonable motto Aut perlegas aut non legas—rendered
Whate'er thou be whose eye do chance to fall
Upon this Book, read all or none at all.
For a considerable time I obeyed the second part of this injunction only.
Naps on Parnassus has some important variants and some corrections of the present text. Omitting minor changes, these are:—
2 obscure] abstruse.
5 what all] what riddles? all (Clearly the right text).
After 16 is the couplet:
There were Philosophers content to be
Renown'd, and famous in obscurity.