To the Reader.

would prove a more durable monument to preserve his memory than any other we could raise for him.

While it was in the original original: Latin, it was a jewel, but hidden from common original: "vulgar"; referring to the common people or those without a classical education capacities; it is no less a jewel now that it is made intelligible to every capacity.

We shall not expand this epistle in praise of either the work or the author; the translation is sufficient for both, if you will take the pains to read it.

November 1681.
John Nelham.
Thomas Whitfield.