A anſten Edward Dyer Efquicr, — 
John Frampton witheth increaſe of 
all woorthip with perpetual! 
et Nint. 
4 Inding heretofore,Ryght Wor- 
ſhipfull, my former tranſlation 
out of Spaniſh into Englyſp, of 
4 the woorke of Doctor Monar- 2 
dus of Seuyll treating ofthinges 5 
of the Wealte Indias, to bee 
% fome-thing paincfull to mee, 
8 not before accuuftomed in tran- 
lations, in tongues fo farre differing in Phrale 
ol ſpeech: I was forced to cutte off, and to leaue three. 
Bookes of the whole worke yndone, dedicated vnto . 
three honourable Perfons whereof the fir Boke 
doeth theweas well the great and rare Vertuesofthe ~ 
~ Bezaar {tone of the Eaſt India againſt Poyſon, hotte, 
or colde, as alſo his wonderfull force agaynſte the 
Plague and Peftilence , and many other difea 
as hath in olde time beene written | by the moſt ex: 
‘cellent ‘Phifitions „ and as Doctor Mobardus a 
‘others the learned of this ourtyme, nowe in thys 
age finde by prefent proofe: The fecondeofthele 
three bookes dooeth open the vafpeakeasle verte 
ia Phiſicke of yron and ftecle, and howe ale 
