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TO FREDERICK, BY THE GRACE OF GOD,

Heir to the Kingdom of Norway, and Duke of Schleswig,

Holstein, Stormarn, and the Dithmarschen, etc.

PETRUS JOHANNES FABER,

Royal Councilor and Physician in Ordinary to Louis XIV,

King of the Gauls, sends his greetings

and prayers.

So great has been, and now is, your benevolence and
friendship toward me, Most Serene Prince, that I could not,
nor ought I to, pass them over in silence without making
it known through a public writing: a writing indeed not vile
and useless to you and yours, but highly necessary and precious,
as if it contained an inestimable price: so that the benevolence
and friendship of the Most Serene Prince toward me, if it be
possible, might grow and increase day by day. For if there
is anything in the series of things which can increase benevolence
and friendship, it is an inestimable gift, an inexhaustible
treasure, and a perennial and perpetual fountain of riches.
The Most Serene Prince did not write any letters to me
requesting that I make him more certain and learned about
such a fountain and perpetual treasure. The Most Serene
Prince, therefore, did not need more learning than he already
possesses, with the genius with which he is endowed,