Prfer Definition

This day the Earle of Rothes, Chancellor, (Sir W^m Bruce’s name is in the gift of non-entrie,) gain’d his action againſt my Lord Melvill and his 2^d ſone; the Lords found Melvill’s ſone could not be ſerved air of tailzie to the laſt Countes of Leven during the poſſibility of a 2^d ſone of my Lord Chancelor’s body, (for the devill moſt byde his day,) and præfers Sir W^m Bruce’s gift.

One discendit of a noble father and mother is euer to be præferred to him quho is onlie procreat of one noble parent, of wich of the two so euer it be. Cod. de Silentiariis lib. 12. L. 1. Menochius Consill. 126. Nobilis, Num. 12. lib. 2.

Clytia (as Perottus witneſſeth) was a glorious Nimph, and thereof had her name : for κλέος in greeke ſignifieth glorie : and therfore ſhe aſpired to be the loue of Sol him ſelfe, who præferring Leucothoe before her, ſhe was in ſhort ſpace ouergonne with ſuch extreemitie of care, that by compaſſion of the Gods ſhee was tranſformed into a Marigolde; which is ſignificantlie called Heliotropium, becauſe euen nowe after change of forme ſhee ſtill obſerueth the riſing and going downe of hir beloued the ſunne, as Ouid mentioneth,

Illa ſuum, quamuis radice tenetur,

Veritur ad Solem, mutataque ſeruat amorem.