Transcriber’s Notes:
- Blank pages have been removed.
- Redundant title page has been removed.
- A few obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.
- Otherwise spelling and hyphenation variations remain unchanged.
- In the replications of earlier title pages at the beginning, use
of the long s ‘ſ’ and ‘VV’ for W are retained.
- Listed “ERRATA” left uncorrected, as done by the editor.
- Footnotes: After the first 10, they appear as sidenotes, as in the
book. Some have multiple references.
- “The Epistle” chapter heading inserted to match page headings of
that section.
- The V like arrangement of the lines at the end of some chapters has
not been followed, as it was unreliable and unsightly with variable
viewer widths, and according to the editor in the preface: “they do
not indicate a division of the text or matter, but were simply
compositors’ devices to fill up a page...”.
- The Unicode flower symbol ‘❈’ is identical to that used in the
original, but is rotated 45°.
Text version only:
- Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_).
- Text enclosed by equals is in bold (=bold=).
- Text enclosed by ‘►◄’ is in blackletter font (►blackletter◄).
- Text enclosed by ‘♦’ is a sidenote.
- Text marked as ‘s̶a̶y̶d̶e̶’ is struck through.
- Purely decorative illustrations have been removed.
- Sidenote references to page numbers in earlier editions have been
removed.