Excerpt from The Life and Times of Lucius Cary Viscount Falkland Of the shortcomings of the work - a work pursued amid many distractions - no one can be more con scious than myself, but I have done what in me lay to raise a worthy monument to the memory of one of the greatest Englishmen of the seventeenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.