EXCELLENT LORD-Solomon says：a good name is as a precious ointment；and I assure my self, such will your Grace's name be, with posterity. For your fortune, and merit both, have been eminent.And you have planted things, that are like to last I do now publish my essays；which, of all my other works, have been most current：for that, as it seems, they come home, to men's business, and bosoms.I have enlarged them, both in number, and weight；so that they are indeed a new work.I thought it therefore agreeable, to my affection, and obligation to your Grace, to prefix your name before them, both in English, and in Latin.For I do conceive, that the Latin volume of them（being in the universal language）may last, as long as books last My Instaration, I dedicated to the King：my History of Henry the Seventh（which I have now also translated into Latin）and my portions of Natural History, to the Prince：and these I dedicate to your Grace；being of the best fruits, that by the good increase, which God gives to my pen and labours, I could yield.God lead your Grace by the hand.

Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant

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