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 To the Reader. tefius by the help of this medicine live 1000 yeares? Did not Flammell build fourteene Hopitals in Paris beides as many in Boleigne, beides Churches, and Chappels with large revenewes to them all? Did not Bacon doe many miracles? and Paracelus many miraculous cures? Beides what faith Sandivogius? I have faith he incurred more dangers, and difficulties by dicovering my elfe to have this ecret, then ever I had profit by it, and whenoever I would dicover my elfe to the great Ones, it alwayes redounded to my prejudice,and danger. Can a man that carrieth alwaies about him 10000 pounds worth of Jewels and gold, travel every where up and downe, afe, and not be robbed? Have not many rich money-mongers been tortured into confeion where their money was concealed? Did you never heare of a vapouring fellow in London, that pretending to the knowledge of this Mytery was on a uddaine caught aide by money-thirters, and by them tormented with tortures little lee then thoe of hell, being forced thereby (if he had knowne it) into a dicovery of it? To ay nothing