TO THE 



KINGS 

 Most Excellent MAJESTY. 



SIB, 



SCIEE meum nihil est, nisi me scire hoc sciat alter, 

 saith the Poet, and I most justly in order to Your Majesty, 

 whose satisfaction is my happiness, and whom to serve is 

 my onely aime, placing therein my Summum bonum in 

 this world: Be therefore pleased to cast Your gracious 

 Eye over this Summary Collection, and then to pick and 

 choose. I confess, I made it but for the superficial satis 

 faction of a friends curiosity, according as it is set downe ; 

 and if it might now serve to give aime to Your Majesty 

 how to make use of my poor Endeavours, it would crowne 

 my thoughts, who am neither covetous nor ambitious, but of 

 deserving Your Majesties favour upon my own cost and 

 charges ; yet, according to the old English Proverb^ It is a 

 poor Dog not worth whistleing after. Let but Your 

 Majesty approve, and I will effectually perform to the 

 height of my Undertaking : Vouchsafe but to command, 

 and with my Life and Fortune I shall chearfully obey, 

 and maugre envy, ignorance and malice, ever appear 

 YOUR MAJESTY S 



Passionately-devoted, or 

 otherwise dis-interested 

 Subject and Servant, 



WORCESTER. 



