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Epitle Dedicatory. which require both'' Time and Aitance, for their due Maturity. So that no man can from thee Glimpes of Light take any jut Meaure of Your Performances, or of Your Proecutions; but every man may perhaps receive ome benefit from thee Parcels, which I gueed to be omewhat conformable to Your Deign.''

''This is my Solicitude, That, as I ought not to be unfaithful to thoe Counels you have committed to my Trut, o alo that I may not altogether wate any minutes of the leaure you afford me. And thus have I made the bet ue of ome of them, that I could devie; To pread abroad Encouragements, Inquiries, Directions, and Patterns, that may animate, and draw on'' Univeral Asitances.

The Great God proper You in the Noble Engagement of Dipering the true Lustre of his Glorious Works, and the Happy Inventions of obliging Men all over the World, to the General Benefit of Mankind: So wihes with real Affections,

Your humble and obedient Servant

HENRY OLDENBURG.