some exceptions noted below. This fact is especially noteworthy
herein, as this book exhibits great variety in spelling and
grammar, and much of it differs greatly from modern usage. There
are many variations that may be regarded as probable typographical
errors, which nevertheless have been retained. Original _ſ_ (now
Unicode U+17f) has been changed to _s_ throughout; and original
_ß_ (U+df) have been changed to _ss_. Original italics look _like
this_. The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby assigns
it to the public domain. Scanned images of the original pages are
available from archive.org — search for “wiseingeniouscom00boye”.
The original pagination has been discarded. The book was comprised
of English text on verso (left-hand) pages, and corresponding
French text on recto (right-hand) pages. The pagination was
unusual, in that the first printed page of the book — the English
title page — occurred on a verso page. This page was unnumbered,
but shall be counted in this discussion as page i. Page ii
displayed the French title page. A Prefatory Introduction started
on page iii, verso. The last page of introductory material fell
on page xiv, recto. The first chapter, The Apophthegms of the
Ancients, fell on the first numbered page (1), verso.
This ebook cannot retain the verso/recto arrangement. In this
edition, the English text is generally aligned to the left margin
while French text is indented four spaces right. Paragraphs of
French text have been moved from their original locations to follow
directly the corresponding paragraphs of English text. Paragraphs
originally broken at page _n_ and continued on page _n+2_ are
reunited.
Page vii. The phrase “Proper, and and the” was changed to “Proper,
and the”.
Page 11 ¶16. Changed “borc” to “bore”.
Page 20 ¶26. In “j’ay défait Hannibal” (as shown in this
transcription), the acute accent over the e looked more like “ẻ”
(U+1ebb latin small letter e with hook above) in the original print.
Page 34 ¶51. “marié ees Mots” to “marié ces Mots”.
Page 35 ¶57. “aswered” to “answered”.
Page 65 ¶119. “Clock is too Cold” to “Cloak is too Cold”.
Page 86 ¶161. Paragraph heading changed from 162 to 161.
Page 88 ¶165. Paragraph heading changed from 164 to 165.
Page 98 ¶184. “sou utilité” to “son utilité”.
Page 130 ¶7. “Grand d’_Espapne_” to “Grand d’_Espagne_”.
Page 132 ¶11. “Epitapnes” to “Epitaphes”.
Page 136 ¶21. “fott” to “fort”.
Page 138 ¶23. “blesla” to “blessa”.
Page 143 ¶35; “Humlity” to “Humility”.
Page 148 ¶41; “demeurent au dessous” to “demeurent au dessus”.
Page 152 ¶51; “uomment” to “nomment”.
Page 152 ¶54; “lni” to “lui”.
Page 155 ¶60; “Archqishop” to “Archbishop”.
Page 161 ¶71; “difficujty” to “difficulty”.
Page 165 ¶75; “qu’ll desiroit” to “qu’il desiroit”.
Page 170 ¶87; “chacum” to “chacun”.
Page 200 ¶135; “l’ Fglise” to “l’ Eglise”.
Page 202 ¶136; “Contumes” to “Coutumes”.
Page 223 ¶154; “Ladi-” to “Ladiship”.
Page 230 ¶156; “nous pouvous” to “nous pouvons”.