60 enseil'd] Same as 'ensealed', 'stamped', 'marked', or perhaps 'closed up'.

66 age] 'agre' in orig. must be wrong.


To the Reader.

Courteous Reader—for to such I write—

With native candour view this chequer'd white,

Be truly candid to a candidate

Whom importunings force to antedate

The travails of his quill, and, like a grape

Ere ripened, press it. Yet if I escape