not well satisfied with them.  He that shall make search after knowledge, let him seek it where it is there is nothing I professe lesse.  These are but my fantasies by which I endevour not to make things known, but my selfe.  They may haply one day be knowne unto me, or have bin at other times, according as fortune hath brought me where they were declared or manifested.  But I remember them no more.  And if I be a man of some reading, yet I am a man of no remembering, I conceive no certainty, except it bee to give notice how farre the knowledge I have of it doth now reach.  Let no man busie himselfe about the matters, but on the fashion I give them.  Let that which I borrow be survaied, and then tell me whether I have made good choice of ornaments to beautifie and set foorth the invention which ever comes from mee.  For I make others to relate (not after mine owne fantasie but as it best falleth out) what I cannot so well expresse, either through unskill of language or want of judgement.  I number not my borrowings, but I weigh them.  And if I would have made their number to prevail, I would have had twice as many.  They are all, or almost all, of so famous and ancient names, that me thinks they sufficiently name themselves without mee.  If in reasons, comparisons, and arguments, I transplant any into my soile, or confound them with mine owne, I purposely conceale the author, thereby to bridle the rashnesse of these hastie censures that are so headlong cast upon all manner of compositions, namely young writings of men yet living; and in vulgare that admit all the world to talke of them, and which seemeth to convince the conception and publike designe alike.  I will have them to give Plutarch a barb [Footnote:  Thrust, taunt] upon mine own lips, and vex themselves in wronging Seneca in mee.  My weaknesse must be hidden under such great credits.  I will love him that shal trace or unfeather me; I meane through clearenesse of judgement, and by the onely distinction of the force and beautie of my discourses.  For my selfe, who for want of memorie am ever to seeke how to trie and refine them by the knowledge of their country, knowe perfectly, by measuring mine owne strength, that my soyle is no way capable of some over-pretious flowers that therein I find set, and that all the fruits of my increase could not make it amends.  This am I bound to answer for if I hinder my selfe, if there be either vanitie or fault in my discourses that I perceive not or am not able to discerne if they be showed me.  For many faults do often escape our eyes; but the infirmitie of judgement consisteth in not being able to perceive them when another discovereth them unto us.  Knowledge and truth may be in us without judgement, and we may have judgment without them:  yea, the acknowledgement of ignorance is one of the best and surest testimonies of judgement that I can finde.  I have no other sergeant of band to marshall my rapsodies than fortune.  And looke how my humours or conceites present themselves,