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 reposing of her lately so alarumed head on your beds of honour. In the mean space, that our English world may know the Mæcenases and Patrons of this generous art, I have exposed this volume to the Publique under the tuition of your names, at whose feet I prostrate these endeavours, and shall for ever remain Your most humbly devoted Servant, Robert May.

From Sholeby in Leicestershire, Jan. 24th, 1659."

The second displays a dignified sense of the value of his own acquirements, and a proper feeling of duty towards his followers in the savoury science.

"To you first, most worthy Artists, I acknowledge one of the chief motives that made me to adventure this volume