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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRAR
GIFT OF

MARY E, HAVEN
JULY 2, 1914,

Our of the olde fieldes, as men saithe,

Cometh all this newe corn fro yere to yere; And out of olde bookes, in goode faithe,

Cometh all this newe science that men lere.

CHAUCER

CAMBRIDGE:

E. W. METCALF AND COMPANY,
Printers to the University.

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"Bur to come back to our Physician; truly, my lord, I must needs pay him, as a due, the acknowledging his pious discourses to be excellent and pathetical ones, containing worthy motives to incite one to virtue, and to deter one from vice; thereby to gain heaven, and to avoid hell. Assuredly he is owner of a solid head, and of a strong, generous heart."

SIR KENELM DIGBY.

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

IN preparing this volume of the Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne, the Editor has endeavoured to include in it what are generally esteemed the best productions of that extraordinary writer. At the head of these stand unquestionably the "Religio Medici," and the "Hydriotaphia"; which pieces, as well as the "Letter to a Friend on the Death of his Intimate Friend," are published without omission or variation.

The Notes appended to the "Religio Medici," are, for the most part, selected from the Annotations, first published in 1654, the author of which is unknown. With much that is valuable in these Annotations is blended not a little that is irrelevant and superfluous. For the anonymous Annotator has the fault, common to all his tribe, of gliding over the dark and diffi

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