Where no modern edition is indicated, I have consulted the work on Early English Books Online (EEBO). All quotations have been silently modernized. Most early books were not paginated. They did, however, carry “signatures” on some (though not all) pages to help the printer assemble them in the right order. Most of the books included here were in quarto format – a large sheet of paper had been folded to give four pages, eight sides. The first such folding might be marked intermittently A1, A2, A3, A4, on the front (recto) side of pages only; it was implicit that the reverse side was A1verso etc., often expressed A1v. The next folding would be B1, B2, and so on. Hence the perhaps unfamiliar “pagination” given in my text.