Seek not to be Judge, being not able to take
  away Iniquity, lest at any Time thou fear the
  Person of the Mighty, and lay a stumbling
  Block in the Way of thy Uprightness.

Offend not against the Multitude of a City, and
  then thou shalt not cast thy self down among
  the People.

Bind not one Sin upon another, for in One thou
  shalt not be Unpunished. Ecclus.  Ch. 7.  V. 6,
  7, 8.

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Non jam prima peto Mnesttheus, neque vincere certo:  Quanquam O!  Sed superent, quibus Hoc, Neptune, dedisti.

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DUBLIN: 
Printed by John Harding in
Molesworth’s Court in Fishamble-street.
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DIRECTIONS TO THE PRINTER.

MR. HARDING, When I sent you my former papers, I cannot say I intended you either good or hurt, and yet you have happened through my means to receive both.  I pray God deliver you from any more of the latter, and increase the former.  Your trade, particularly in this kingdom, is of all others the most unfortunately circumstantiated; For as you deal in the most worthless kind of trash, the penny productions of pennyless scribblers, so you often venture your liberty and sometimes your lives, for the purchase of half-a-crown, and by your own ignorance are punished for other men’s actions.

I am afraid, you in particular think you have reason to complain of me for your own and your wife’s confinement in prison, to your great expense, as well as hardship, and for a prosecution still impending.  But I will tell you, Mr. Harding, how that matter stands.  Since the press hath lain under so strict an inspection, those who have a mind to inform the world are become so cautious, as to keep themselves if possible out of the way of danger.  My custom is to dictate to a ’prentice who can write in a feigned hand, and what is written we send to your house by a blackguard boy.  But at the same time I do assure you upon my reputation, that I never did send you anything, for which I thought you could possibly be called to an account.  And you will be my witness that I always desired you by a letter to take some good advice before you ventured to print, because I knew the dexterity of dealers in the law at finding out something to fasten on where no evil is meant; I am told indeed, that you did accordingly consult several very able persons, and even some who afterwards appeared against you:  To which I can only answer, that you must either change your advisers, or determine to print nothing that comes from a Drapier.