The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont by hym collected out of diuers excellent authours, and newly translated out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By William Warde.

The translatour to the Readers.

IN the ediciō of the first parte of the worthie se∣cretes, of the reuerend Senior Alexis of Pie∣mont, it was promised you (gentill readers) e∣uen of hym self in his Epistle, that he would labour in the collecciō of others, tried and experimented, for the vtilitie, profite, and pleasure of all soche, as either delited in theim, or would by theim be eased, of soche infirmities, as thei might casually haue been greeued withall. You heard also the cause, why he would communicate those secretes with the worlde, whiche vndoub∣tedly sprong of a godlie zeale, towarde the common cace of all menne. I therefore (bi∣cause he hath kept touche, performing his promes, in collectyng a seconde part) could no lesse dooe herein, then I did in the firste parte, that is to saie, no more to spare my labour in translatyng it, into our natiue toungue, nor hide the commoditie of so ex∣cellente thinges, from those that haue not the vnderstandyng of the Frenche tongue, then I did before. And bicause you should

not haue onely, the hed without the taile, that is, the biginnyng without the ende, you shall haue here, no lesse good and profitable matters (althoughe not so many) then was pre∣sented you in the o∣ther, as by your iudgement in rea∣dyng, you shall ease∣ly perceiue.