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Querela Cantabrigiensis: OR, The Universities Complaint.
THough an Apology for our long silence might better become us then any other forme of Pre∣facing, yet were there some that thought it better to fit downe in the shade of coole patience, and sweeten the sad prospect of our owne miseries, by reflecting on the great publike woes of this Kingdome, then incurre the suspicion of querelous natures, such as are apt to cry out onely at the imagination of being hurt. But seeing our miseries are reall, and our sufferings not so much in∣tended against us, as against that famous University, where∣of by right, wee are still actuall members; And that the adverse party, hath hitherto made so much advantage of our tamenesse, as to steal away our livelyhood from us, and conceale the Theft: though our owne Mothers mouth be stopped, by violently seizing her presse, and thereby not suffered to speake, but (like Apollo's Statue of old) just as the evill spirit speakes in her, which at this time utters little else but disloyalty and Rebellion: yet seeing it hath pleased the hand of providence to give us this happy op∣portunity freely to bewaile our owne miseries; We are at length resolved to doe Justice to these Mens iniquity and our owne innocence, that our Fellow-Subjects may know, (and if they leave so much learning as to speak in another language, the whole world may hereafter understand) how, and by what A••••s the Knipperdullings of this Age (who