卷首·扉页、献辞与致读者（上）

GULIELMUS LILLIUS Astrologus Natus Comitat: Leicest: 1° Maij 1602.

威廉·莉莉，星占家，生于莱斯特郡，一六〇二年五月一日。

Guliel: Marshall sculpsit.

威廉·马歇尔镌刻。

CHRISTIAN ASTROLOGY

基督教占星学

MODESTLY Treated of in three Books.

分三卷谦恭论述。

The first containing the use of an EPHEMERIS, the erecting of a Scheam of Heaven; nature of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack, of the Planets; with a most easie Introduction to the whole Art of ASTROLOGY.

第一卷包括星历的用法、天宫图的起法；黄道十二星座的性质、诸行星的性质；附整个星占术最浅易的入门。

The second, by a most Methodicall way, Instructeth the Student how to Judge or Resolve all manner of Questions contingent unto Man, viz. of Health, Sicknesse, Riches, Marriage, Preferment, Journies, &c. Severall Questions inserted and Judged.

第二卷以极有条理的方法，教学者怎样判断或解答人事中一切可能发生的问题，即健康、疾病、财富、婚姻、升迁、旅行等等。书中插入并判断了若干问题。

The third, containes an exact Method, whereby to Judge upon Nativities; severall wayes how to rectifie them; How to judge the generall fate of the Native by the twelve Houses of Heaven, according to the naturall influence of the STARS; How his particular and Annuall Accidents, by the Art of Direction, and its exact measure of Time by Profections, Revolutions, Transits. A Nativity Judged by the Method preceding.

第三卷包含判断本命的精确方法；校正本命的几种办法；怎样按诸星的自然影响，以天上十二宫判断本命者的总体命运；怎样以推运之术，以及用小限、回归、过运对时间的精确度量，判断他各年的具体际遇。并按前述方法判断一个本命。

By WILLIAM LILLY Student in Astrology.

星占学的研习者威廉·莉莉著。

Omne meum, nil meum: Nihil dictum, quod non dictum prius.

一切是我的，又没有一样是我的：凡所言说，无不是前人说过的。

LONDON:

伦敦：

Printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Partridge and Humph. Blunden, in Black-friers at the Gate going into Carter-lane, and in Cornhil, 1647.

托马斯·布鲁德内尔为约翰·帕特里奇与汉弗莱·布伦登印行，地址在黑衣修士区通往卡特巷的门口，以及康希尔，一六四七年。

To his most learned and vertuous friend BOLSTROD WHITLOCK, Esq. one of the Members of the honorable House of COMMONS in this present PARLIAMENT.

致我最博学、最有德行的朋友布尔斯特罗德·怀特洛克先生，本届议会下议院的一位尊贵议员。

Much honored Sir:

极受尊敬的先生：

I Hope this Dedicatory Epistle of mine published without your knowledge, shall beget no such sinister construction in you, but that the fault shall be admitted as a veniall transgression ; and this my presumption finde easie remission at your most gentle hands. I am now so wel acquainted with your pleasing native disposition, that in things of this nature where your honour is not in question, I dare a little offend; for its a fixed naturall Maxime ingrafted in you, to love your friends sincerely, and rarely to take offence upon slight failings.

我希望这封未经您知晓就付印的献辞，不会在您心中引起不好的解释，而这过错能被当作可恕的小过，我的冒昧能在您极宽厚的手中轻易得到宽免。我如今已十分熟悉您那令人愉快的天性，在这类不涉及您荣誉的事情上，我敢稍稍冒犯；因为您心中植根着一条固定的天然准则：真诚地爱您的朋友，很少因轻微的过失而见怪。

Pardon this boldnesse; verily, so many, so numberlesse are my engagements unto you, that I could doe no lesse, having no other meanes remaining whereby to expresse a gratefull heart, or to acquaint the present and future times, of your ardent and continuall promoting me and my poore labours, since first Divine Providence made me knowne unto you; so that I doe freely acknowledge, next unto Almighty God, your selfe have been the Instrumentall meanes of inabling me to performe, not onely what is already publique, but also this ensuing Treatise, which now I humbly offer unto your Patronage, as a thankfull testimony of my sincere respects due unto you: for had not you persevered all along a firme and an assured Mæcenas unto me, my carkasse and Conceptions had beene buried in eternall silence; so that the Students in this Art must acknowledge the Restauration of Astrologie unto your goodnesse.

请原谅这份大胆；确实，我欠您的情是如此之多、多到数不清，我不能不这样做，因为除此之外我再没有别的办法来表达一颗感恩的心，或让现在与将来的人知道：自从神的眷顾使我为您所知以来，您是怎样热切而持续地提携我和我微薄的劳作；所以我坦然承认，除了全能的上帝之外，正是您成了使我得以完成的工具：不仅是那些已经公开的作品，还有这部随后的论著，我现在谦卑地把它献给您庇护，作为我对您应有的真诚敬意的感恩见证：因为若不是您始终作我坚定可靠的米西纳斯，我的躯壳与构想早已埋没在永恒的沉默里；所以此术的学者们必须承认，占星学的复兴归功于您的善意。

For, SIR, you have countenanced me your self; you have commended me to your Friends; you have never omitted to doe me, or my friends for my sake, any civill courtesies: And this I shall adde to your honour, that I no sooner at any time importuned your favour, but I was instantly sensible of your actual and reall performance of the thing I required.

因为，先生，您亲自垂青于我；您把我推荐给您的朋友；您从未忘记给我，或看在我面上给我的朋友，种种礼遇：我还要为您的荣誉添上一句：每当我向您求助，我总是立刻就感到您实实在在地办成了我所求的事。

Should I enumerate your vertues or curtesies in this kinde performed unto many besides my selfe, the day would faile me of time, and my hand grow weary of writing: but as in private you assist your friends, so have you most faithfully for almost seven yeeres served your Countrey in this present Parliament, even to the manifest decay of your health, to my owne knowledge, and consumption of many thousand pounds of your Estate: you have refused no paines to benefit this Commonwealth; and being ever delegated an honourable Commissioner upon all Treaties for Peace betwixt the King and Parliament, you have demeaned your selfe with such candour, judgement and integrity in all of them, that the whole Kingdome are satisfied therewith, and we of the Commonalty stand indebted unto you.

若我要细数您在这方面施于我以及许多别人的美德与礼遇，白昼的时间会不够用，我的手也会写累：但正如您私下扶助朋友，您在本届议会里也已极其忠诚地为国家服务了将近七年，据我亲眼所知，以致明显损害了您的健康，耗去了您数千镑的家产：您不辞任何辛劳来造福这个国家；您每次都被委派为国王与议会之间一切和谈的光荣委员，在所有这些和谈中都表现得如此坦诚、明断而正直，使整个王国都感到满意，我们平民也都感激您。

Brevity best pleaseth you, few words may become me; yet I cannot rest in quiet untill I deliver those excellent expressions of yours, which my owne eares heard from your mouth in 1644. at what time this present Parliament was loe, and your selfe tampered withall to become Turncoat and renounce this Parliament;

简短最合您意，寥寥数语也与我相称；然而，在我把您那番出色的言辞传述出来之前，我无法安心；那是一六四四年我亲耳从您口中听到的，那时本届议会处境低落，又有人设法拉拢您，要您变节、背弃这个议会；

NO, I'le not remove from this present Parliament now sitting at Westminster, for unto this place was I called, and hither sent by my Countrey for their service, and if God have so decreed, that his Majesty shall overcome us, yet am I resolved to abide here, and to dye within the wals of that very House; and I will take the same portion which God hath assigned to those honourable Members that shall continue firme in this cause.

“不，我不会离开这个现在在威斯敏斯特开会的议会，因为我被召到这里，被我的家乡派到这里为他们效力；若上帝已经这样定了，国王陛下会战胜我们，我也决心留在这里，死在那座议院的墙内；我会领受上帝分派给那些坚守这一事业的尊贵议员的同一份命运。”

These words you have made good even unto this day, to your eternall honour ; nor can the blacke mouthes of the most accursed snarling Curs detract a graine from your worth.

这些话您直到今天都兑现了，使您永享荣誉；那些最可诅咒的狂吠恶犬的黑嘴，也无法从您的价值上减去一粒分毫。

I have now a large Field to walke in, and should I further proceed, I am assured I should move that sweet disposed temper of yours, which is not easily offended; I am silent; onely;

我如今有一片广阔的田野可以漫步，若再说下去，我确信会惊动您那不易被冒犯的温和性情；我就此打住；只说一句：

Faveas (precor) primitiis crescentis Indolis, quæ si sub tuo sole adoleverit, & justam tandem maturitatem consequuta fuerit, non indignos fructus retributarum confido.

恳请您垂顾这份正在成长的天资的初果；它若能在您的阳光下长大，终于成熟，我相信它会结出不负您的果实。

SIR, I hope you shall have no dishonour to Patronize the Ensuing Worke, wherein I lay downe the whole naturall grounds of the Art, in a fit Method: that thereby I may undeceive those, who misled by some Pedling Divines, have upon no better credit then their bare words, conceived Astrology to consist upon Diabolicall Principles: a most scandalous untruth, foysted into both the Nobility and Gentries apprehensions, to deter them from this Study, and to reserve it intyre unto their owne selves.

先生，我希望您庇护这部随后的著作不会有损您的荣誉；书中我按合宜的方法，把此术的全部自然根据都交代出来：好让那些被某些贩卖口舌的神学家误导的人醒悟过来；那些人仅凭神学家空口的话，就以为占星学建立在魔鬼的原理之上：这是一个极其诽谤的谎言，被塞进贵族与绅士的头脑，要吓得他们不来研习这门学问，好把它整个留给那些神学家自己。

Wishing to you and your honourable Consort all happinesse, I conclude in these last words, that I am with all my heart,

祝您与您尊贵的夫人一切幸福，我以最后这些话作结：我全心全意是

Your most humble Servant,

您最谦卑的仆人，

Strand 16. Aug. 1647.

斯特兰德，一六四七年八月十六日。

WILLIAM LILLY.

威廉·莉莉。

To the READER.

致读者。

I Have oft in my former Works hinted the many feares I had of that danger I was naturally like to be in the yeer 1647. as any may read, either in my Epistle before the Conjunction of Saturne and Jupiter, printed 1644. or in page thereof 108. or in the Epistle of Anglicus 1645. where you shall find these words:

我在以前的著作里常常暗示过，我对自己天生可能在一六四七年遭遇的危险怀有许多忧惧，任何人都可以读到，或在我一六四四年印行的《论土星与木星的会合》前面的书信里，或在该书第一百零八页，或在一六四五年《安格利库斯》的书信里，在那里你会找到这些话：

I have run over more dayes then fifteen thousand five hundred fifty and nine, before I am sixteen thousand four hundred twenty two dayes old, I shall be in great hazard of my life, but that yeer which afflicts me will stagger a Monarch and Kingdome, &c. What concernes my selfe, hath almost in full measure proved true, in 1647. having in this untoward yeer been molested with palpitation of the Heart, with Hypocondry melancholy, a disaffected Spleen, the Scurvy, &c. and now at this present, viz.

“我已活过一万五千五百五十九天以上，在我满一万六千四百二十二天之前，我会有生命的大危险，但那折磨我的一年，也会使一位君主与一个王国动摇，等等。”关于我自己的部分，在一六四七年几乎完全应验了：在这不顺的一年里，我受心悸、疑病性的忧郁、脾脏失调、坏血病等等的困扰；而眼下此刻，即

August 1647. when I had almost concluded this Treatise, I am shut up of the Plague, having the fourth of August buried one Servant thereof, and on the 28. of the same moneth another, my selfe and remainder of my Family enforced to leave my proper seat, and betake my selfe to change of ayre; so that if either my present Epistles, or the latter part of the Book it selfe be any thing defective, as well they may, being written when my Family and selfe were in such abundant sorrow and perplexity; I desire the Reader to be so civill, as to passe over those slight imperfections (if any be) with a candid censure.

一六四七年八月，当我这部论著快要完稿时，我因瘟疫被封闭在家，八月四日埋葬了一个死于此病的仆人，同月二十八日又埋葬了另一个，我自己与家中其余的人被迫离开住所，换个地方去透气；所以，若我目前的这些书信，或书的后半部分有什么欠缺——它们很可能如此，因为是在我全家如此悲伤困惑之时写成的——我希望读者宽厚些，以坦诚的评断略过那些小瑕疵（如果有的话）。

I thank almighty God, who hath prolonged my life to this present, and hath been so gracious unto me, as to spare me so long, whereby I have been enabled now at length to perfect that Introduction so oft by me promised, so earnestly desired by many wel-wishers unto this learning.

我感谢全能的上帝，他延长我的生命到如今，又如此恩待我，留我这么久，使我终于能够完成我屡次许诺、许多爱好这门学问的人殷切期待的那部入门。

The latter part of my prediction concerning Monarchy, is now upon the stage and eyes the of millions attending what shall become of it: let us leave the event hereof unto God, who is hastening to require a strict accompt of some people entrusted in the Kingdomes affaires; fiat Justitia; vivat Rex; floreat Parliamentum.

我关于君主制那个预言的后半部分，如今正在舞台上演，千百万双眼睛都在注视它将有什么结局：让我们把它的结果交给上帝，他正在加紧向某些受托处理王国事务的人要一笔严格的账；愿正义得行；国王万岁；议会昌盛。

[Use of the first Book.] The Citizens of London make small reckoning of Astrology; there are in one of those Epistles of mine, words significant, and of which time will make them sensible (that they were not wrote in vaine) but now too late, actum est.

（第一卷的用途。）伦敦的市民不大看重占星学；在我的那些书信中有一封里，有些意味深长的话，时间会使他们明白（那些话不是白写的），但那时已经太迟，事已无可挽回。

To the work in hand, viz. the Book ensuing, which is divided into three Treatises; the first whereof doth with much facility, and after a new method, instruct the Student how to begin his work, viz. it teacheth him the use of an Ephemeris, of the Table of Houses, &c. it acquaints him how to erect a figure of heaven, how therein to place the Planets, how to rectifie their motions to the hour of his Figure; it unfolds the nature of the Houses, of the Planets, of the Signes of the Zodiack, their division, and subdivision, their severall properties, terms of Art, and whatever else is fit for the Learner to know before he enter upon judgment: unto whom and every one that will be studious this way, I give these cautions.

说到手头的工作，即随后这部书，它分为三篇；第一篇以新的方法，十分容易地教学者怎样开始他的工作，即教他星历的用法、宫位表的用法等等；让他知道怎样起天宫图，怎样把行星放进去，怎样把它们的运行校正到他所起之盘的时刻；它阐明诸宫、诸行星、黄道诸星座的性质，它们的划分与细分，各自的种种特性，此术的术语，以及学者在着手判断之前该知道的一切：对他，以及每一个愿意在这方面用功的人，我给出以下告诫。

[Cautions for young Students.] First, that he be very exact in knowing the use of his Ephemeris, and in setting a Scheame of Heaven for all the hours of the day or night, and in reducing the motions of the Planets to the hour thereof when need requireth, and to know their characters distinctly and readily.

（对年轻学者的告诫。）第一，要非常精通星历的用法，精通为昼夜任何时刻起天宫图，需要时把诸星的运行折算到那个时刻，并且清楚而迅速地认得它们的符号。

Secondly, I would have the Student very perfect in knowing the nature of the Houses, that he may the better discover from what house to require judgment upon the question propounded, lest for want of true understanding he mistake one thing for another.

第二，我希望学者非常熟悉诸宫的性质，好更准确地看出提出的问题该从哪一宫求判断，免得因缺乏真正的理解而把一件事误作另一件。

Thirdly, I would have him ready in, and well to understand the Debilities and Fortitudes of every Planet, both Essentiall and Accidentall.

第三，我希望他熟练而透彻地了解每颗行星的受损与得力，必然的与偶然的都要。

Fourthly, he must be well versed in discovering the Nature of the Significator, what he signifies naturally, what accidentally, and how to vary his signification, as necessity shall require.

第四，他必须精于辨别征象星的性质：他天然表示什么，偶然表示什么，必要时怎样变通他的意义。

Fiftly, let him well understand the nature of the Signes, their properties and qualities, and what forme, shape and conditions they giue of themselves naturally, and what by the personall existence of a Planet in any of them.

第五，让他透彻了解诸星座的性质、它们的特性与性质，它们本身天然给出怎样的形貌、体态与状况，又因某颗行星亲身在其中而给出什么。

Sixtly, that he be ready in the shape and description which every Planet designes, and how to vary their shape as they are posited in Signe and house, or aspected of the Moon or any other Planet.

第六，要熟知每颗行星所示的形貌与描述，以及它们落在不同星座与宫位、或受月亮或其他行星照看时，怎样变通它们的形貌。

Seventhly, he must oft read the termes of Art, and have them fresh in his memory, and especially the twentieth and one and twentieth Chapters of the first Book.

第七，他必须常读此术的术语，使它们常新于记忆，尤其是第一卷的第二十与第二十一章。

If God almighty shall preserve my life, I may hereafter adde many things, and much light unto this Art, and therefore I desire the Students herein, that if they meet with any extraordinary casualty in their practice, they would communicate it unto me.

若全能的上帝保全我的性命，我以后或许会给此术增补许多东西、许多光明；所以我希望在这方面的学者，若在实践中遇到任何不寻常的事例，能告诉我。

I have with all uprightnesse and sincerity of heart, plainly and honestly delivered the Art, and have omitted nothing willingly, which I esteemed convenient or fit, or what might any thing assist the yong Students herein; I have refused the Methods of all former Authors, and framed this De Novo, which I have ever found so easie and succesfull, that as yet I never undertook the instruction of any, whom I have not abundantly satisfied, and made very capable of the Art, in lesse time then any could expect; for although I am not yet six and forty yeers of age compleat, and have studied this Science but since 1632. and have lived six yeers since that time in the Country, yet I know I have made more Schollers in this Profession, then all that professe this Art in England.

我以全然正直真诚的心，平实而诚实地传授了此术，凡我认为合宜、恰当，或对年轻学者有一点帮助的，我都没有故意遗漏；我舍弃了以前所有作者的方法，重新架构了这一套，我一向觉得它如此容易而有效，以致迄今为止，凡我着手教过的人，没有一个不是我使他大为满意、在比任何人所能预期的更短的时间里精通此术的；因为我虽然还没满四十六岁，从一六三二年起才研习这门学问，此后又有六年住在乡下，但我知道，我在这一行里造就的学生，比全英国所有以此术为业的人加起来还多。

It remaines, that I give every Author his due, and deale plainly, unto which of them I am engaged for such matter as they have assisted me with in the Introductory part: verily the Method is my owne, it's no translation ; yet have I conferred my owne notes with Dariot, Bonatus, Ptolomey, Haly, Etzler, Dietericus, Naibod, Hasfurtus, Zael, Tanstettor, Agrippa, Ferriers, Duret, Maginus, Origanus, Argol.

剩下的是给每位作者以应得的承认，坦白说明在入门部分他们给了我哪些材料，我欠了他们哪些人的情：确实，方法是我自己的，不是翻译；不过我也拿自己的笔记对照了达里奥、博纳提、托勒密、哈利、埃茨勒、迪特里库斯、奈博德、哈斯富尔图斯、扎埃尔、坦施泰特、阿格里帕、费里耶、迪雷、马吉尼、奥里加努斯、阿尔戈尔。

[The second Book.] The second part of this Treatise judging of horary Questions, is very large, and farre beyond my first intentions, hath exceeded its just proportion: In building this Work I advised with Bonatus, Haly, Dariot, Leupoldus, Pontanus, Avenezra, Zael:

（第二卷。）本论著的第二部分判断卜卦问题，篇幅很大，远超我最初的打算，超出了它应有的比例：构筑这部分时，我参考了博纳提、哈利、达里奥、莱奥波尔德、蓬塔努斯、阿文以斯拉、扎埃尔：

I examined the Manuscrips of Ancient and Reverend Professors in this Art, who lived more remote from these corrupt Times, ( for unto the vulgar Professors now residing in this City, am I no wayes engaged;) and though it wis no small trouble unto me, to see the discrepancy of judgment amongst them and the more ancient printed Authors, yet I have with some trouble reconciled their disagreements, and reformed and corrected what might have led the Reader into an errour: for indeed the Writings of our Fore-fathers in the Language they did deliver their minds in, was sound and solid, but the simplicity of such as undertook their translations was much and did beget mistakes, whilest they endeavouring to translate the Authors into Latin, or any other Language they thought fit, did not understand the Art or the Termes thereof; so that of those their Labours, they rendred an ill accompt unto Posterity, as any may see in the translation of that we call the Judicium in Novem Judiciis, &c. and in other pieces of Alkindus, one whereof lately a learned Gentleman gave me, guilty of the same deficiency in the translation.

我查阅了此术中古老而可敬的前辈的手稿，他们生活的时代离如今这败坏的时代更远（因为对现住本城的那些庸俗从业者，我丝毫不欠什么情；）看到他们彼此之间、以及他们与更古老的印本作者之间判断上的分歧，这对我不是小麻烦，但我费了些力气调和了他们的分歧，改正、订正了那些可能把读者引入错误的地方：因为确实，我们先辈用他们表达思想的那种语言写下的著作，是可靠而扎实的，但那些承担翻译的人的浅陋很严重，造成了许多错误；他们努力把作者译成拉丁文或任何他们认为合适的语言时，却不懂此术或它的术语；所以他们的那些劳作留给后世的是一笔糟糕的账，任何人都可以在我们称为《九判书》等书的译本里看到，在阿尔金迪的另一些著作里也是，最近一位博学的绅士给了我其中一部，那译本也犯了同样的毛病。

In this second Book I have omitted nothing which I could devise to be helpfull, and if my owne way of judicature please any, it being somewhat different from that of the Ancients, he may in many Chapters make use of it. I have illustrated every house with one or more Figures, and therein shewed the method of judgment, which I held very convenient for Learners, it being my whole intention to advance this Art, and make even a slender wit capable hereof.

在这第二卷里，凡我能想到的有帮助的东西，我都没有遗漏；若我自己那种判断方式——它与古人的有些不同——合谁的意，他可以在许多章里使用它。我为每一宫都配了一张或几张天宫图，并在其中展示判断的方法，我认为这对初学者非常合宜，因为我全部的用意就在于推进此术，使即便才智平平的人也能掌握它。

[The third Booke.] You may in the third Book behold the entire Art of Nativities, I have made it plaine and significant: part of the Method, and much of the matter I had from Leovitius, who was the first that methodized the Art of Nativities, before his time extreamly defective in that point ; where he wis not copious, I supplyed my selfe, or enlarged from Origanus, Junctine, Pezelius, Naibod, Cardan, Garceus, Schonerus, Albubatur, Montulmo, Judeus, Ptolomey, Lindhold: Perhaps some will accuse me for dissenting from Ptolomey;

（第三卷。）在第三卷里，你可以看到本命之术的全貌，我把它写得平实而明白：方法的一部分和大部分材料，我得自莱奥维提乌斯，他是第一个把本命之术条理化的人，在他以前这方面极其欠缺；凡他不够详尽的地方，我自己补充，或从奥里加努斯、尤恩提努斯、佩策利乌斯、奈博德、卡丹、加尔凯乌斯、舍纳鲁斯、阿尔布巴特、蒙图尔莫、尤迪乌斯、托勒密、林德霍尔特那里扩充：或许有人会指责我与托勒密意见相左；

I confesse I have done so, and that I am not the first, or shall I that have done so, be the last; for I am more led by reason and experience, then by the single authority of any one man, &c. I have inserted many judgments of my owne, I could have added many more: but who am I? being all errour, that should contradict the sayings of so many wise men, whose learnings and paines I so much esteem and reverence.

我承认我这样做了，而我不是第一个，我这样做了的人也不会是最后一个；因为引导我的更多是理性与经验，而不是任何一个人的单独权威，等等。我插入了许多我自己的判断，还可以加更多：但我算什么呢？我满是错误，岂能去驳斥这么多智者的话，我对他们的学问与辛劳是如此敬重。

Little did I think this Work of Nativities would have swolen to so great a bulk; I assure you it exceeds my first intentions: the paines however hath been mine, and notwithstanding the importunities of some, and they not a few, who desired I should not deliver the Art in so plaine and easie a method;yet I professe,their words rather invited me to discover all I knew, then to conceale one sillable materiall.

我完全没想到这部本命之学会膨胀成这么大的篇幅；我向你保证，它超出了我最初的打算：然而辛苦是我的；尽管有些人——而且不在少数——一再恳求我不要用如此平实浅易的方法传授此术，但我声明，他们的话反倒促使我把我所知道的一切都揭示出来，而不肯隐瞒一个要紧的音节。

Had I respected my owne private lucre, I need not have wrote at all; who could have compelled me? my owne fortune is competent: but this thing we call the publick good, was ever, and shall be my maxime to guide me in such like actions: how shall I my selfe expect truth in any Author, if I my selfe, being an Author, play the knave in the same kind: Quod non vis tibi, ne facias alteri.

若我顾及自己的私利，我根本就不必写；谁能强迫我呢？我自己的财产已足够：但这件我们称为公益的事，过去是、将来也会是指导我做这类事的准则：我自己若作为一个作者，在同样的事上耍无赖，又怎能指望从任何作者那里得到真实？己所不欲，勿施于人。