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Pastorius's Section Header: The Contents of the portable Volume of Importation, which having several times been fenced in by Stitching more Sheets thereunto, got quite an other Form or Face than Its first was, even in the eyes of the Compiler himself.
Pastorius's Description: The Alvearium itself, being the chief Bulk of this manuscript, begins pag. 231. / The Title Page thereof, see pag. 1. 54 & 55. / Some thing by Way of a Preface to the Peruse. ÿsdem pag. / The Index or Inventory was once on pag. 56. But a more handsom & compleater Table thou wilt find just before these seven leaves. / The Authors, out of w. It is collected. pag. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. // Some Inscriptions transcribed out of my Itinerary. pag. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. / Some Epitaphs out of my Te moneant Lector tot in uno funera libro. Tempere quid certo Tu quoq' funus eris pag. 11. &c. // Emblematical Recreations from pag. 25. to pag. 54. / Symbola Onomastica F. D. P. pag. 55.1st. / Onomastical Considerations pag. 88. and so on to page 260. / Poetical Raptures pag. 71 to page 140. . Short Caveat to J. S. P & H. P. concerning Poetry. pag. 77. Some other good Admonitions unto the same. pag. 77. 381. // Catalogus variorum librorum pag. 377 &c. // Genelogia Pastoriana. pag. 220.2d./. // a Catalogue of mine other Manuscripts. pag. 386 wch. are neither for the most learned, nor the most unlearned, and where unto I desire none bus a Friendly & Impartial Reader. a Bee & not a Spider. /// At the first undertaking of this Book my mean Scope was for the future Imitation of my two Sons, onely to Collect Common Proverbs, witty Sentences, wise and godly Sayings, with the like substantial marrow of other Men's Writings, &c. See pag. 55 / But afterwards Considering the Copiousness of Words, Phrases & Expressions in the English (: my said two Sons Country-language, For seeing I and my Wife are both Germans, I dare not well call it their Mother Tongue, which they if possible should perfectly learn TO Read & Write to To Indite, I took as much pains & patience as to Import into the Alphabetical Alvearium all & singular Terms, Idioms, Man[n]ers of Stile & Speech used in the same. Now In as much the former is to supply the place of honey, these latter I would have to be accounted if not for Wax, yet for hivedross. &c. See pag. seq. / The Language now a days spoken in England & Colonies thereunto belonging is not the ancient Briton-Tongues, No, not the least Offspring thereof; But a Mingle-mangle of Latin, Dutch & French: Relicks or Remains of the Roman, Saxon & Norman Conquests. / Most Mono Syllables are of a Dutch origin, ax, ox, fox, cow, corn, horn, hard, drink, spin. &c. Words of Many Syllables are either brought in by the Romans, multitude, audacious, implicate, prudently, or by the Normans, buckler, strange, dangerous, delay, advance, maintain. &c. / And besides those there are also Hebrew, Arabick, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Danish and Welch words in the said English Tongues. See my Miscellany Remarks Concerning it pag. 151. / Hence it is that when other Europians can not deliver their minds but by expressing one thing by one word, ye English may do it Commonly by two; Oftentimes by three or four. - ex. gr. Spirit, Ghost, grateful, thankful. alterable, mutable, changeable. breadth, latitude. Sepulchre, tomb, grave. a Count, Eart, Grave. Promote, advance, further. Remission, pardon, forgiveness. bad, ill, naught. Impediment, obstruction, lett, hindrance, stop. aquit, exonerate, dischage, free. Congregation, Meeting, Gathering, assembling, Coming together. &c. More Examples the hive itself furnisheth almost in every Cranny! Therefore ye I. S. P. and H. P. for whose sake It is made, Read the same over & over and & over, But not overly; Mind What and How you are reading. / add p. 55.# / Venturag hyemis memores astate Laborem Ne fugite! E / Quod Natura negat Vobis Industria praestet. / F. D. P. // For Six-corner'd hole in honey-combs.
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