And truly had not the duty I owe
unto the importunity of friends, and the allegiance I must ever
acknowledge unto truth, prevailed with me; the inactivity of
my disposition might have made these sufferings continual,
and time that brings other things to light, should have
satisfied me in the remedy of its oblivion. But because things
evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth
most falsely set forth, in this latter I could not but think
myself engaged. For though we have no power to redress the
former, yet in the other, the reparation being within our
selves, I have at present represented unto the world a full and
intended copy of that piece, which was most imperfectly and
surreptitiously published before.
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of
affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I
had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated
unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription
successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved
copy at the press .
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