from Dancing Over the Rays of Light

Salomon saies, or may bee it was Aristote, or may bee it was one or another of our modern Authores; Reading maketh a full Man, or Woman; Conference a ready Man, & etc.; and Writing an exact Man, & etc.; And I assure my selfe, such wil be chisseled upon your Graces Tombes, though Scoffers there bee, that wil dissent. And for such Cause it is, that I doe now publish my Essay; which, from all my Days, gatheres together my Thoughts, concerning the swifte Passage of Time. For I doe hope and conceive, that this my Essay, may laste, beyond my owne allotted Yeares, and truly may laste, to what the very best, and the very wisest, of our modern Authores, has called, The last Syllable, of recorded Time; or if not so longe, then so longe, as Bookes shall last, and Readers there bee, that study them, as they are meant to bee studied.