Now, my dear anti-Shandeans, and thrice able criticks, and fellow-labourers (for to you I write this Preface)------and to you, most subtle statesmen and discreet doctors (do--pull off your beards) renowned for gravity and wisdom; ----_Monopolus_, my politician-- _Didius_, my counsel; _Kysarcius_, my friend; --_Phutatorius_, my guide; ----_Gastripheres_, the preserver of my life; _Somnolentius_, the balm and repose of it----not forgetting all others, as well sleeping as waking, ecclesiastical as civil, whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together. 
Now, my dear anti-Shandeans, and thrice able critics, and fellow-labourers (for to you I write this Preface) - and to you, most subtle statesmen and discreet doctors: Monopolus, my politician; Didius, my counsel; Kysarcius, my friend; Phutatorius, my guide; Gastripheres, the preserver of my life; Somnolentius, the balm and repose of it - not forgetting all others, whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together.
