Volume 3, Image 6
Pastorius's Description: For as much as our Memory is not capable to retain / all remarkable words, Phrases, Sentences or / Matters of moment, which we do hear and read, / It beseems every good Scholar to have a Common- / Place-Book, and therein to treasure up what- / ever deserves his Notice. &c. And to the end / that he may readily know, both whither to dispose / & insert each particular, as also where upon / occasion to find the same again, &c. He ought to / make himself an Alphabetical Index / like this of mine for my English Bee-Stock / which being the largest and best Manuscript, / I in my riper years did gather out of the most / excellent Authors thereunto prefixed, would / desire my two Sons, not to part with it for any gold / or red Dust of this World; But rather Con- / tinue it by the help of this following Table. / Because, The pride of Wisdom is above Rubies, / & cannot be valued with the precious Onyx or / Sapphire; And to get understanding is / rather to be chosen, than Silver. &c. / Prov. 16:16. Job 28:16, 18. and what / wisdom & undestanding is, vid. x. 28. // In the following Table the letter a. stands for the alphabetical / part of the Hive from p.134. to p.217. and the numbers 1. 2. 3. / to above 1800. [2000.] from thence do orderly succeed. // One or more Figures inclosed in a Crotchet, ex. gr. [.1.] after the / word Overmeasure, refers you to the additions annexed to the Alphabetical Table. // What in the subsequent Table is alledged by p. /: signifying Page / hath relation chiefly to that part of my Hive, Intit'led / Emblematical Recreations, from p. 25. to p. 54. / as also to the several Inscriptions, from p.2. &c.
Section: Octavo Index Front Matter
Content: Verse & Key to the Index
Type: Introductory Material
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