I H [...]ve h [...]re drawn up, a Poetick par­ty of Pegasean pulfries in the new Ar­tillary ground of this book, which as they now stand in close order, under the co­lours, and command of the Book-bind [...]r: seem no lesse unanimous, then uniform; but upon a little examination, you shall finde them Pro and con, round and roy­all, and like the Cadmean Upstarts shea­thing their weapons in each others entrails. Many of them I must tell you are Ama­zonian Archers fighting under the banner of their winged Generall; Others under the carelesse flaggs of fancy for the merry halfe Crownes: Aequa Venus Teu [...]ris, 'al­las iniqua fuit. Others are at their guard, and wall in themselves with the stones of their obdurate hearts, of whom the Poet sayes. Et dicam si [...]i [...]es p [...]ctus habere. If you chance (as I can not hope but you will) [Page] either in mine or the Printers oversight, meet some lame Souldiers, I hope they shall likewise meet your charity. For the times, being like themselves humoursome, they seeme to promise me some approve; provi­ded the Proverb hold true, Like to like. But what need I feare to mount that brain sick stage, where even lyes and Libells, un­der the new fangled notion of news, passe as currant as our coine, for my part, I am not so in love with my owne fea­thers, as in think them worthy a terse care, or an ingenious eye: Nor doe I yet so ab­dica [...]e my owne ability, but that I judge my pa [...]es, as much above your contempt as beneath your envy.