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The Epistle dedicatory I like most I have put at the 

 beginning of this book — a wish for the friend to whom 

 the book is inscribed. As brief as it is beautiful is the 

 inscription at the end of The vertuose boke of Distyllacyon 

 of the waters of all maner of Herbes (1527) : 



4 <&obu;es gra« sljall *b*r txibnn.' 



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