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the like to bis fiorife^'Whatfoever he hath attained unto 

 ■ by readmg or otherwife ^ you (hall have a thoufand^who 

 ' upon any the leaft occafion will (end for a Femer tota^xc 

 ;the Cureifl hand. Again, inftead of this pretended pre- 

 judice, .tbfe commodity- will accrew to my brethren 

 Smiths^ f^Mirpah^diW^'Ferriers^ z'iz. they (hall by pro- 

 mulgiuion of Books ("of this nature) become much more 

 able, and i/^hai in flndik^ that is, much more learned 

 .and andodrinated ift thi^ generous faculty than ever they 

 were' before \ by^ «w hi^h- -mea ns they will 'be efiiee meS 

 much mord fiimousfafid Eminent,' iind cried up for the 

 moft expert and able men in this moft noble Science. For 

 how cometh it to pais, that Phyficians, Chyrurgions, 

 Lawyers, Divines, and all other Artifts do become fo 

 great Dodors of their Arts and Profeffions, and ad- 

 mired for moft famous and -learned men, and (b frequent- 

 ly fought after, enquired out, and fent for when occafi- 

 on is .<? Is it not for what they have attained unto bv ftu- 

 dy and reading, until which time they were not fp hardy 

 as to adventure upon pra^licej? So as without their Li- 

 berty, they could never have been E^bk to have attained 

 unto that eminent knowledge they have afterwards afpi- 

 red unto ^ neither could they otherwife have ^been poffi- 

 bly able to praftice and work by true Art and Science. 

 -For the Works of lear-ned and emment men, are the only 

 -thing that doth enabk thetn, which are kft as a never 

 dying Monument to- erifulng' and endless -Pofterity, as 

 the common good to the weal publick, even to all enfu- 

 ing ages.- Imitating therdn the antiient Sages of-Greece^ 

 that wbe-n any m^tl^h^d ijiVebted that thing which was 

 known to-be 'cbtmiiod'toi'!^ to i:h'e Republick, lelV the 

 -thrng ,fhould b;e burkd'witVvthc-lnventcer, atid by that 

 kieans raked up with him in- the afnes of jkerpetual obli- 

 vion .• They ordained that-t^ie firft Inventor (hould (ec 

 up his Scknce to be knowft by^ay of record in ^heir pub- 



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