OF THE REVISED EDITION

The text begins mid-sentence, continuing from the previous page's discussion of a critic's book. ...published in English seven years ago against us, has more than once accused us. Certainly, as soon as I had read there, not without amazement, the insinuation of plagiarism against me, I sought with the greatest diligence for that third volume of Faber Pierre du Faur (Petrus Faber), a French scholar mentioned on the previous page., not only among booksellers, but also among the more learned of my friends in England who are better acquainted with books. I did this so that I might clearly discern for myself whether I could have been guilty of the crime. For I was not at all afraid that anyone of an honest mind—and who was not entirely ignorant of my character—would consider me guilty. So constant and perpetual an ambition has held us: to acknowledge at the proper time those from whom we have learned.

But for a long time, I requested that little book here in vain. Finally, while I was considering this new edition last summer, and being anxious again about the book, I received a copy sent by the Elzeviers A famous Dutch family of printers and booksellers known for their high-quality editions of scholarly works.. Meanwhile, a copy was also found among the books of the Illustrious Isaac Casaubon and of the blessed original: "μακαρίτου" (makaritou). This Greek term is used to respectfully refer to a person who has passed away, in this context likely referring to Casaubon himself or a fellow deceased scholar whose library was being cataloged. which the Royal Library at St. James possesses; the Illustrious Patrick Young Latinized as Patritius Junius (1584–1652), a prominent scholar and the Royal Librarian to King James I and King Charles I. very kindly showed it to me.

And so, having finally obtained it, I look into this matter of plagiarism with wonder. Before I had read Faber here, I confess I feared that those who did not know my character well enough might at least suspect that I had been a plagiarist; for I did not yet know whether the most learned Faber had treated our subject in such a way that we, who wrote so many years after him, would appear to have plundered his treasures. This was especially a concern since the Adversary had published that claim so assertively. But