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 neglected your worldly advantages to become maters of that which hath now rendred you both truly honorable. If I had as many languages as your elves, the rhetoricall and patheticall expresions thereof would fail to ignifie my etimation of, and affections towards you both. Now Sir! as in reference to this my tranlation, if your judgement hall finde a deficiency therein, let your candor make a upply thereof. Let this Treatie of Occult Philoophy coming as a tranger amongt the Englih, be patronized by you, remembring that you your elf was once a tranger in the Country of its Nativity. This tranger I have dreed in an Englih garb; but if it be not according to the fahion, and therefore ungrateful to any, let your approbation make it the mode; you know trangers mot commonly induce a fahion, epecially if any once begin to approve of their habit. Your approbation is that which will tand in need of, and which will render me, SIR, Mot obligedly yours, J. F.