Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

Cui Nato Dorcestriae, Jun. 21. 1639.

Sibi optabiliora advenere Natalitia, Bostonae, Aug. 23. 1723.

An Totus Recessit? Non Reliquit—SAMUELEM.

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Though One among the Learned has proposed, That unto the Three Things which were by the Ancients, reckoned. Things never to be met withal, there should be added for the Fourth. A Book Printed without Errata; Yet there was a famous Printer at Paris, before the middle of the XVI Century, so Exact in his Press-Work, that sometimes a Book in Folio of his Printing, had no more than Two Errata Observed in it. The Name of such a Printer deserves to be Celebrated & Immortalized! His Name was Christian Wechel. My Young Printer, the Nephew of him whose Name stands in the Title page, tho' this be the First Book, that has entirely passed through' his hand, has bid pretty fair towards the Exactness of that Honest and Careful Christian. And I will not complain of his Performance as Jos. Scaliger did unto Casaubon of a Book then in his hands, Qui norunt Eos qui Excuderunt, rantum abest, ut Errata mihi objiciant, ut potius mirentur et frequentiora et graviora non esse admissa. We have upon a Review hardly any but a Few Literals, to ask the Corrective Pains & pens of the Readers to be Employed upon: and for these, tis I who am chiefly to be Blamed, who Examined the Sheets too hastily and heedlessly. Here's the most of 'em.