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Show / Memorials if ,maq~ {hong oppoficion againfr this pio~ s ddjgn ~ and mixed ocher matters with chis bufinefs, onel y to raife an odi~ m .. ~.gainfl: the MagiHrates purfuino peace ; it feemed good , that it 1hould be £h~·wed how un juLl "thofe turbulent clamQrs were ~in the confutation of one mofl: eminent among his fellows , who had in ill manner implored the aid of external powd. To this fervice was I chofen. ~ not but that many tnighc have · ~one )~ better, but becaufe it feemed .Proper to the office which I then did e~eq1te. Nor was I ignorant what 'twas to provoke VVafps , but beino a1med with a good Confcience , I ad~emured to cxpofe my felf to calumnies , which t~ey £hall never efcape that will oppofe .y1ces aged and robuflious. But I give you thanks, and acknowledoe your oood '11 b v WI to me, and your wifdome, when you perfwade me to abltain for rhe future from fuch contentions. I will indeed in compliance with ycur Autho"ity, and my own inclination both, carefully avoyd all unneceffary quarrels · b(caufe I fee it is ( as you write ) of very gre:a mo· ment , as well to the he a lch of bociy, ( which to me is but weak) as to rranquiJlity of mind. .After thu he comes to JPeak._ of his hiffortc ~ t wririnKs, tf.lf4: The Hiflorie of our VV ar I have continued to the ~nd , th~ t is, to the T1 uce'. Thue The Author. There remains now the labour of revifing and corretling it , almofl more croublefome than the writing : ~ tee , when l had lei1ure to write more heedfully , I was not well provided With lolid knowledge of affai1 s : now , when I am able to get a better underH:anding of matters, r:ny employments ( being many rather than great) do not afford me time to fele& words fit for the Hiflorie. And I much fear~ that the work will be uneaven and broken~ and being Nmpofed at divers Limes , will not refemble the fame .Author. VVhat I have written, upon your encouragement 1 will' revife and amend as perfe&ly as I can , and then lay it up where it lhaU have no commerce with this Age; for ic is danoerous co contra& with it. Pofl rity is better trufted; not becaufe it will be becrer, but becaufe it vvill be more kind to the dfceafed ; for there will arife other obje6ts for envy and mahce to work upon. · . Anno 1616. Gulielmus Grotms, our '.A..tthor• s Brother , pHb!ifhed a ColleCtion of his Potms. Concerning which our .Author ) in an Eptft/e of his prefixed, {111th ." - ~Some |
