Transcriber’s notes:
The text of this e-book has been preserved as in the original, including inconsistent capitalisation and hyphenation. Archaic and inconsistent spellings have also been preserved except where obviously misspelled in the original.
To assist readers, an additional item (‘Editor’s Introduction’) has been added to the table of contents. Footnotes are positioned below the relevant paragraph.
Spelling inconsistencies include (but are not limited to) the following:
Fifty/Fiftie enjoy/enioye natural/naturall physitians/physicians book/booke aëreal/aereal/aërial
Corrected misspellings include the following:
preceive → perceive under-their → understand their retrogade → retrograde aditional → additional aud → and so → to Valkveld → Vlackveld slugglishly → sluggishly
EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS