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TO THE READER. 411
Author can have in the means of his progenitors ; for what can the Author
and his posterity suffer of damage by the want of his estate comparable to
the prejudice sustainable by the many readers and their succefsors through
lack of his writings ? unlefs one would think that the goods of fortune are
more highly to be prized then those of the minde ; the contrary whereof
hath been very clearly evidenced in many several pafsages of the foregoing
Tractate.
Vade Liber, totumque refer mea damna per orbem,
Hostibus affigens stigmata nigra meis ;
Contingatque mihi Siculi fortuna Poetae,
Cui fatale metrum non minus ense fuit ;
Nee posthac demptum dices mihi creditor ensem,
Si calamo pofsim te jugulare meo.
Author can have in the means of his progenitors ; for what can the Author
and his posterity suffer of damage by the want of his estate comparable to
the prejudice sustainable by the many readers and their succefsors through
lack of his writings ? unlefs one would think that the goods of fortune are
more highly to be prized then those of the minde ; the contrary whereof
hath been very clearly evidenced in many several pafsages of the foregoing
Tractate.
Vade Liber, totumque refer mea damna per orbem,
Hostibus affigens stigmata nigra meis ;
Contingatque mihi Siculi fortuna Poetae,
Cui fatale metrum non minus ense fuit ;
Nee posthac demptum dices mihi creditor ensem,
Si calamo pofsim te jugulare meo.
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