ABSTRACT
Hereby hee thought to conny catch the simple world, and m~ke them beleeue, that these and these great men, euerie waye sutable to Syr Thomas Baskeruile, Master Bodley, Doctor Andrewes, Doctor Doue,
Clarencius and Master Spencer, had separately contended to outstrip Pindarus in his Olympicis, and sty aloft to the highest pitch .... Doctour Doue and Clarencius, I turne loose to bee their owne Arbitratours and Audocates; the one being eloquent enough to defend himselfe, and the other a Vice roy & next Heyre apparant to the King of Heralds, able to emblazon him in his right colours, ifhee fin de hee hath sustained any losse by him: as also in like sort Master Spencer, whom I do not thrust in the lowest place because I make the lowest valuation of, but as wee vse to set Summ' tot' alway underneath or at the bottome, he being the Sum' tot' of whatsoeuer can be said of sharpe inuention and schollership.
