i think once more, but now for the last time, i'm going to turn back again to the preface to the reason of church government and  whoops  and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray, the political fray ‘but although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him, might without apology speak more of himself than i mean to do, yet for me, sitting here below in the cool element of prose, a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit, to venture and divulge unusual things of myself, i shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me.’