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The Epitle Dedicatory. Court the mother, and you winne the daughter, prevail with Nature, and the fair Diana of the Philolophersis at your ervice.

Now if you cannot prevaile with Nature for the fairet of her daughters, viz. the Mercury of Philoophers, yet hee hath other daughters of wonderful beauty alo, as are the eences, & magiteries of Philoophers, which alo are endowed With riches, honour, and health, & any of thee you may more eaily prevail with their mother nature for. This Art of Alchymie is that Solary art, which is more noble then all the other ix arts, & iences, and if it did once throughly hine forth out of the clouds whereby it is ecliped, would darken all the ret, (as the un doth the other fix planets) or at leat wallow up their light. This is that true naturall philoophy Which mot curately