AWRIT OF PREVENTIONConcerning theAvthorsDedicationof the foure followingBookes, to thoseRoyall,Princely, andIllustriousPersonages,whose Names are mentionedin thisLeafe.I Have not often us'd, withEpigrames,Or, withInscriptionsunto manyNames,To charge myBookes: Nor, had I done it, now,If I, to pay theDutieswhich I owe,Had othermeanes; Or, any better WayesTo honour them, whoseVertuemerits praise.InARCHITECT, it giveth good content,(And passeth for a praisefullOrnament)If, to adorne theFORE-FRONTS,BuildersreareTheStatuesof theirSoveraigne-Princes, there;And, trimme theOutsides, of the otherSqvaresWithPortraituresof some Heroicke PEERES.If, therefore, I (the more to beautifieThisPortionof myMvsesGallerie)Doe, here, presume to place, theNAMESof thoseTo whoseDeserts, myLoveremembrance owes,I hope 'twill none offend. For, most, who seeTheir worthymention, in thisBooke, to bee,Will thinke them honor'd: And, perhaps, it may(To their high praise) be found, another day,That, in theseLeavestheirNameswil stand unrac'd,When many fairerSTRVCTVRFS, are defac'd.In thisHope, I have placed on theFore-Front(or before theFirst Bookeof theseEmblems) aIoint-Inscriptionto theKingandQveenesmost excellentMaiestie.Upon theRight-Side-Frontof thisBuilding(or before theSecond Booke) OneInscriptionto the most hopefullPrince,Charles, Prince ofWales; And, another to his deereBrother,Iames, Duke ofYorke,&c.On the otherSide-Front, (or before theThird Booke) OneInscriptionto the gratious Princesse,FrancesDutchesse-Dowager ofRichmondandLenox; And, another to her most noble Nephew,IamesDuke of Lenox, &c.On theFourth Frontof ourSquare, (Or before theFourth Booke) OneInscriptionto the right HonourablePhilipEarle ofPembrookeandMontgomery, &c. And another to the right Honourable,HenryEarle ofHolland, &c.
I Have not often us'd, withEpigrames,Or, withInscriptionsunto manyNames,To charge myBookes: Nor, had I done it, now,If I, to pay theDutieswhich I owe,Had othermeanes; Or, any better WayesTo honour them, whoseVertuemerits praise.InARCHITECT, it giveth good content,(And passeth for a praisefullOrnament)If, to adorne theFORE-FRONTS,BuildersreareTheStatuesof theirSoveraigne-Princes, there;And, trimme theOutsides, of the otherSqvaresWithPortraituresof some Heroicke PEERES.If, therefore, I (the more to beautifieThisPortionof myMvsesGallerie)Doe, here, presume to place, theNAMESof thoseTo whoseDeserts, myLoveremembrance owes,I hope 'twill none offend. For, most, who seeTheir worthymention, in thisBooke, to bee,Will thinke them honor'd: And, perhaps, it may(To their high praise) be found, another day,That, in theseLeavestheirNameswil stand unrac'd,When many fairerSTRVCTVRFS, are defac'd.
I Have not often us'd, withEpigrames,Or, withInscriptionsunto manyNames,To charge myBookes: Nor, had I done it, now,If I, to pay theDutieswhich I owe,Had othermeanes; Or, any better WayesTo honour them, whoseVertuemerits praise.InARCHITECT, it giveth good content,(And passeth for a praisefullOrnament)If, to adorne theFORE-FRONTS,BuildersreareTheStatuesof theirSoveraigne-Princes, there;And, trimme theOutsides, of the otherSqvaresWithPortraituresof some Heroicke PEERES.If, therefore, I (the more to beautifieThisPortionof myMvsesGallerie)Doe, here, presume to place, theNAMESof thoseTo whoseDeserts, myLoveremembrance owes,I hope 'twill none offend. For, most, who seeTheir worthymention, in thisBooke, to bee,Will thinke them honor'd: And, perhaps, it may(To their high praise) be found, another day,That, in theseLeavestheirNameswil stand unrac'd,When many fairerSTRVCTVRFS, are defac'd.
I Have not often us'd, withEpigrames,Or, withInscriptionsunto manyNames,To charge myBookes: Nor, had I done it, now,If I, to pay theDutieswhich I owe,Had othermeanes; Or, any better WayesTo honour them, whoseVertuemerits praise.InARCHITECT, it giveth good content,(And passeth for a praisefullOrnament)If, to adorne theFORE-FRONTS,BuildersreareTheStatuesof theirSoveraigne-Princes, there;And, trimme theOutsides, of the otherSqvaresWithPortraituresof some Heroicke PEERES.If, therefore, I (the more to beautifieThisPortionof myMvsesGallerie)Doe, here, presume to place, theNAMESof thoseTo whoseDeserts, myLoveremembrance owes,I hope 'twill none offend. For, most, who seeTheir worthymention, in thisBooke, to bee,Will thinke them honor'd: And, perhaps, it may(To their high praise) be found, another day,That, in theseLeavestheirNameswil stand unrac'd,When many fairerSTRVCTVRFS, are defac'd.
I Have not often us'd, withEpigrames,
Or, withInscriptionsunto manyNames,
To charge myBookes: Nor, had I done it, now,
If I, to pay theDutieswhich I owe,
Had othermeanes; Or, any better Wayes
To honour them, whoseVertuemerits praise.
InARCHITECT, it giveth good content,
(And passeth for a praisefullOrnament)
If, to adorne theFORE-FRONTS,Buildersreare
TheStatuesof theirSoveraigne-Princes, there;
And, trimme theOutsides, of the otherSqvares
WithPortraituresof some Heroicke PEERES.
If, therefore, I (the more to beautifie
ThisPortionof myMvsesGallerie)
Doe, here, presume to place, theNAMESof those
To whoseDeserts, myLoveremembrance owes,
I hope 'twill none offend. For, most, who see
Their worthymention, in thisBooke, to bee,
Will thinke them honor'd: And, perhaps, it may
(To their high praise) be found, another day,
That, in theseLeavestheirNameswil stand unrac'd,
When many fairerSTRVCTVRFS, are defac'd.
In thisHope, I have placed on theFore-Front(or before theFirst Bookeof theseEmblems) aIoint-Inscriptionto theKingandQveenesmost excellentMaiestie.Upon theRight-Side-Frontof thisBuilding(or before theSecond Booke) OneInscriptionto the most hopefullPrince,Charles, Prince ofWales; And, another to his deereBrother,Iames, Duke ofYorke,&c.On the otherSide-Front, (or before theThird Booke) OneInscriptionto the gratious Princesse,FrancesDutchesse-Dowager ofRichmondandLenox; And, another to her most noble Nephew,IamesDuke of Lenox, &c.On theFourth Frontof ourSquare, (Or before theFourth Booke) OneInscriptionto the right HonourablePhilipEarle ofPembrookeandMontgomery, &c. And another to the right Honourable,HenryEarle ofHolland, &c.
In thisHope, I have placed on theFore-Front(or before theFirst Bookeof theseEmblems) aIoint-Inscriptionto theKingandQveenesmost excellentMaiestie.
Upon theRight-Side-Frontof thisBuilding(or before theSecond Booke) OneInscriptionto the most hopefullPrince,Charles, Prince ofWales; And, another to his deereBrother,Iames, Duke ofYorke,&c.
On the otherSide-Front, (or before theThird Booke) OneInscriptionto the gratious Princesse,FrancesDutchesse-Dowager ofRichmondandLenox; And, another to her most noble Nephew,IamesDuke of Lenox, &c.
On theFourth Frontof ourSquare, (Or before theFourth Booke) OneInscriptionto the right HonourablePhilipEarle ofPembrookeandMontgomery, &c. And another to the right Honourable,HenryEarle ofHolland, &c.