Sidenote: The secrete conveighyng of Letters; The defence against a breach; How the antiquitie got tounes by muining under grounde.
Neuerthelesse certeine it is that antiquitie vsed it before glasse was knowen, vnder the name of Selenites.
This onelie shall suffice to note here (as by the waie) that as antiquitie hath delighted in these things, so in our time pompe and excesse spendeth all, and nothing is regarded that bringeth in no bread.
For though the Scotish histories doo carrie great countenance of their antiquitie in this Iland: yet (to saie fréelie what I thinke) I iudge them rather to haue stolne in hither within the space of 100.
All which opinions as I absolutelie denie not, so I willinglie leane vnto none of them in peremptorie maner, sith theantiquitie of our historie carrieth me withall vnto the former iudgements.
But to leaue to the Scots the antiquitie of their originall beginning, as they and other must doo vnto vs our descent from Brute and the other Troians, sith the [Sidenote: More certeintie from hence forth appeareth in the historie.
Wherefore doth vaineAntiquitie so vaunt Her ancient monuments of mightie peeres, And old heröes, which their world did daunt With their great deedes and fild their childrens eares?
Likewise it dooth plainely appeere that there was the first inuention of printing, a thing as strange as the other, whose antiquitiein that kingdome shall be shewed in the chapter following.
Of the antiquitie and manner of printing bookes, vsed in this Kingdome, long before the vse in our Europe.
Of the antiquitie of this kingdome of China, and of the beginning of the world, and in what time and for whome it beganne.
For though the Scotish histories doo carrie great countenance of their antiquitie in this Iland: yet (to saie freelie what I thinke) I iudge them rather to haue stolne in hither within the space of 100.
For marke, how all antiquitie foregone Of all time ere we were, to us was none.
For, even the discourses, which sterne antiquitie hath left us concerning this subject, seeme to me but faint and forcelesse in respect of the feeling I have of it; And in that point the effects exceed the very precepts of Philosophie.
Memorandum--this decyphering gives great light to the antiquitie of the family which els would be lost utterly.
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