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ny whereof, and moft belonging to the Firff Chapter, 
having now lain dormant, near feven years; and might 
ftill, perhaps, have fo continued, had not Your Lordjbips 
Eye, at length, created Light upon them. In doing 
which, You have given one, amongft thofe many Tokens, 
of as well Zour readinefs to promote Learning and Know- 
ledge by the hands of others ; as Your high Abilities to do 
it by Your Own: Both which, are fo manifeft in Your 
Lordfhip, that, like the firft Principles of Mathematical 
Science, they are not fo much to be afferted, becaufe 
known and granted by all. 
The Confideration whereof, my Lord, may make me 
not only uf, in owning of your Favours; but alfo moft 
Ambitious of your Patronage: Which yet, to befpeak, I 
mutt confefs, I cannot well. Not that] think, what is 
Good and Valuable, is always its own beft Advocate : for 
Iknow, that the Cenfures of Men, are humorous, and va- 
triable ; and that one Age, mutt have leave to frown on 
thofe Books, which another, will do nothing lefs than kifs 
andembrace. But, chiefly, for this Reafon, Left I thould 
fo much as feem defirous, of Your Lordjbips Soliciting 
my Caufe, as to all I havefaid. For as it is your Glory, 
that you like not fo to fhine, as-to put out the leaft Star ; fo 
were it to Your Difhonour, to borrow Your Name, to il- 
luftrate the Spots, though of the moft confpicuous. lam, 
My Lord, 
Your Lordjbips 
Moft Obliged, 
And 
Moft #dumble S: ervant 
NEHEMJAH GREW. 
Coventry, 
June 10. 167%. 
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