Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head62" xml:space="preserve">TO THE READER.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9106" xml:space="preserve">IAm to give Advertiſement, that
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            there came forth of late a Tranſlation
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            of this Book by an unknown Perſon,
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            who though he wished well to the
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            propagating of his Lordſhips Works,
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            yet he was altogether unacquainted with his
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            Lordſhips ſtile and manner of Expreſſions, and
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            ſo published a Tranſlation lame and defective in
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            the whole. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9107" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon I thought fit to re-
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            commend the ſame to be tranſlated anew by a
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            more diligent and zealous Pen, which hath ſince
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            travelled in it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9108" xml:space="preserve">and though it ſtill comes short
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            of that lively and incomparable Spirit and Ex-
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            preſſion, which lived and died with the Author,
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            yet I dare avouch it to be much more warrant-
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            able and agreeable then the former. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9109" xml:space="preserve">It is true,
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            this Book was not intended to have been pub-
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            lished in Engliſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9110" xml:space="preserve">but ſeeing it hath been already
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            made free of that Language, whatſoever benefit
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            or delight may redound from it, I commend the
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            ſame to the Courteous and Judicious Reader.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9112" xml:space="preserve">W. </s>
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