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To the Reader. 



WHen I do confider (hcKevoIe^t T^ader^ the in- 

 convenience whereinto that Man is plunged, 

 who brings him(elf upon the publick Stage 

 / of promulgating his Books in Print, be the 



SubjeQ: never (b laudable, and the Author no le(s cau- 

 telous and (ufficient, endeavouring vi^ith ail diligence to 

 prevent the brand of a black coal, neverthelefs all induftry 

 applied, he fhall not pa(s without obloquy and afperfion. 



This very confideration hath (b affrighted and deterred 

 me, that albeit I have had many great motives exciting 

 me to make a tender of the Love, Duty, and Service I 

 bear to my Country 5 yet when I do contemplate the ma- 

 ny cenfures I muft undergo, I have been evermore dif- 

 heartned as well from beginning, as going forward in this 

 my defired purpole. Notwithftanding partly through the 

 refpedlbear to my Countries profit and honour,and part- 

 ly by means of the importunity of many my right noble 

 and generous friends,who have been eye-witnelles tolun- 

 dry of my Cures, and thole not a few uncouth and rare, 

 I have adventured now in my declining days,to leave this 

 Work as a Monument to enfuing times, no whit doubt- 

 ing, but that the judicious will friendly accept thereof^ 

 but as for the malevolent and ignorant, I am moft confi- 

 dent that the quills they (hall dart at me, cinnot go as 

 from a Porcupine, and ihertfbre will do me the lels hurt 

 or damage. - 



I therefore am bold to put into thy hand this poor 



Work ofxninei which I have.digefted in two Books : In 



the firft I lay thee down rudiments, how thou mayft 



breed ifpries to thy bed: advantage and liking, which al- 



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