_If there had not beene some =Bookes= conceitedly composed, and sutable to meane capacities, I am doubtfull, whether I had ever beene so delighted in reading, as thereby to attaine to the little Knowledge I have: For, I doe yet remember, that, things =honestly pleasant=, brought mee by degrees, to love that which is =truely profitable=. And as =David= said, His =Heart shewed him the wickednesse of the Vngodly=; (meaning perhaps, that hee felt in himselfe, some =Experiments=, of the same naturall Corruption, by which they are overcome, who resist not evill suggestions at their first motions:) Even so, I may truly acknowledge, that mine owne =Experience= hath showne mee so much of the common =Ignorance= and =Infirmitie= in mine owne person, that it hath taught mee, how those things may be wrought upon in others, to their best advantage._ _Therefore, though I can say no more to disswade from =Vice=, or to incourage men to =Vertue=, than hath already beene said in many learned =Authors=; yet I may be an occasion by these =Endeavours=, to bring that, the oftner into remembrance, which they have, more learnedly, expressed; and perhaps, by such circumstances, as they would not descend unto, may insinuate further also with some Capacities, than more applauded =Meanes=. =Viniger=, =Salt=, or common =Water=, (which are very meane =Ingredients=) make Sawces more pleasing to some tastes, than =Sugar=, and =Spices=. In like manner, plaine and vulgar notions, seasoned with a little =Pleasantnesse=, and relished with a moderate =Sharpnesse=, worke that, otherwhile, which the most admired =Compositions= could never effect in many =Readers=; yea, wee have had frequent proofes, that a blunt =Iest= hath moved to more consideration, than a judicious =Discourse=._ _I take little pleasures in =Rymes=, =Fictions=, or conceited =Compositions=, for their owne sakes; neither could I ever take so much paines, as to spend time to put my meanings into other words than such as flowed forth, without =Studie=; partly because I delight more in Matter, than in =Wordy Flourishes=, But, chiefely, because those =Verball Conceites=, which by some, are accounted most =Elegant=, are not onely (for the greater part) =Emptie Sounds= and Impertinent =Clinches=, in themselves; but, such =Inventions=, as do sometime, also, obscure the =Sense=, to common =Readers=; and, serve to little other purpose, but for =Wittie men= to shew =Tricks= one to another: For, the =Ignorant= understand them not; and the =Wise= need them not._