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The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Andrew Marvell ...
The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Andrew Marvell Author:Andrew Marvell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO THE CAPTIOUS READER. JLL that I have to require of theo is, That wheresoever my stile or principles strike out and keep not within the same bounds tha... more »t the most jndicious Author of The Naked Tru/Ahath all along observed ; he may not therefore be traduced. He could best have writ a Defence proportionable to his own subject; had he esteemed it necessary, or that it was decent for him to have enter'd the pit with so scurrilous an Animadverter. But I thought it a piece of due civility from one of the laitie, to inter- esse myself for one of the clergy, who had so highly obliged the people of England. And I will answer for mine own faults; I ask thee no pardon. Nor therefore is either the Author, or any other particular person, or any Party, to be accused, or misrepresented upon my private account. For the rest, neither let any particular man, or order, inlargo my meaning against themselves, further than in conscience they find they are guilty. Nor let the body of chaplains think themselves affronted. None more esteems them, nor loves their conversation better than I do. They are the succeeding hope of our church, the youth of our clergy; and the clergy are the reserve of our Christianity. Some of them, whom I know, have indeed, and do continue daily to put very singular obligations upon mo ; but I write to a nobler end, than to revenge my petty concernments. Adien. chapter{Section 4Mu. SMIEKE: Or, The DIVINE IN MODE. jjT hath been the good-nature (and politicians will have it the wisdom) of most. governours to entertain the people with publick recreations ; and therefore to incourage Bnch as could bestcontribute to their divertisement. Andhenccdount- less it is, that our ecclesiastical governours also (who as they yield to none for prndence, so in good-humor they e...« less