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 maximum ut sapientibus cognitum est) tamen spectaculum ineffabile sapientæ præbent et possunt applicari ad probationem omnium occultorum quibus vulgus inexpertum contradicit, et judicat fieri per opera demoniorum, &c. And thus most humbly desyring your Honour to pardon my boldnesse in writing unto you; and, according unto your accustomed clemencie, to accept in good parte this my presumptuous attempte, which only the love I beare to your vertues hathe moved me unto, my trust is that these thinges shall not be alltogyther unpleasaunt unto your honour, otherwyse occupied in greate affayres bothe in the courte and common wealthe, as was Plato with King Dyonisius, Aristotle with greate Alexander, and Cicero Senator and Consul of Rome.

The eternall God and immortall mover of the greate worlde and the lesse, preserve your Honour in healthe and prosperitie!

From the Folde bysyde Barnet, the first of August 1562.

Most bownde to your honour,&emsp;&emsp;

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 THOMAS DIGGES TO LORD BURGHLEY. [MS. Lansd. No. 19, Art. 30. Orig.]

14th May, 1574.&emsp;

Right Honorable,—As in your Lordshippes fframe astronomicall, for ornament the ffigures of the most notable constellations in this our visible hemisphere are pourtrayd, adourned with ther due number of hevenly lights; so, in the tables adjoyninge, are impressed sutche numbers as deliver by methode not vulgare the situations and habite which 