Read well, and then these following lines are mine, But read them like a botcher, they are thine. Such virtue from some readers doth proceed, They make the verse the better which they read: They know their idioms, accents, emphases, Commas, stops, colons, and parentheses, Full points, and periods, brief apostrophes, Good knowing readers understand all these: But such as dares my book to take in hand, Who scarce can read or spell or understand; Yet, like Sir reverence Geese, they will be gagling, And tear my lines to tatters with their hagling; Such I request, if bachelors they be, To leave my book, and learn their A.B.C.: If married men they be, let them take pain To exercise their horn-books once again. J. TAYLOR. _Epigrams, Written on purpose to be read: with a Proviso, that they may be understood by the Reader._ A PRETENDER TO LEARNING ... is oftener in his study than at his book.... His table is spread wide with some classic folio, which is as constant to it as the carpet, and hath lain open in the same page this half year.... He walks much alone in the posture of meditation, and has a book still before his face in the fields. His pocket is seldom without a Greek Testament, or Hebrew Bible, which he opens only in the church, and this when some stander-by looks over.... He is a great nomenclator of authors, whom he has read in general in the catalogue, and in particular in the title, and goes seldom so far as the dedication.--J. EARLE. _Microcosmographie._ SUPERFICIAL READERS