Produced by Jonathan Ingram, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) Transcriber's Note Footnotes and section headers were both printed in the margins as sidenotes. For this text version, numbered marginal footnotes have been moved to the end of their paragraphs. The headers have been moved to appear on a separate line at the beginning of each section. Redundant sidenotes merely indicating Part and Section numbers have been removed. Those marginal notes which serve as paragraph descriptions, at or near the head of a paragraph, precede that paragraph. Those which serve to annotate specific points are inserted parenthetically as [SN: notes]. The Annotator's note which precedes Religio Medici uses marginal notes as references to the relevant sections and pages in the printed text. On occasion, the Latin passages employ a scribal abbreviation 'q;' for 'qus', which has been retained. Descriptive notes have been inserted at the beginning of the sentence to which they refer, like this: [Sidenote: Use of Italics] Italics are used freely, and have been rendered using _underscore_ characters. Please consult the more detailed notes at the end of this text. THE ENGLISH LIBRARY THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE VOLUME I [Illustration] THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE Edited by CHARLES SAYLE VOLUME I LONDON GRANT RICHARDS 1904 PREFATORY NOTE This edition is an endeavour to arrive at a more satisfactory text of the work of Sir Thomas Browne, and to reproduce the principal part of it, as faithfully as seems advisable, in the form in which it was presented to the public at the time of his death. For this purpose, in the first volume, the text of the _Religio Medici_ follows more particularly the issue of 1682. The _Pseudodoxia Epidemica_ here given is based upon the sixth edition of ten years earlier, with careful revision. In every case in which a spelling or punctuation was dubious, a comparison was made of nearly all the issues printed during the lifetime of the writer, and their merits weighed. By this means it is hoped that the true flavour of the period has been preserved.