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conceale or fraudulentlie obscure, and with many falla∣cies and subtilties shadow and couer those things, which beeing plainly sette downe, might redounde to a more generall good then easily may be expressed. And how∣soeuer this malicious suppressing, or sophisticate publi∣shing of diuers secrets, be generall in many▪Artes and knowledges, yet I thinke it is in no one thing more com∣mon then in the Spagericall Arte. In the which Arte, after I had bestowed many yeeres studie and trauaile, J freely imparted to my Countrimē at diuers times heer∣tofore, such secrets as by often reading in the best Au∣thors of the same Arte, or by many experiments of my great labour and charge, I haue founde out most cer∣taine and without deceit. And now vnder your wor∣ships fauourable protection, J offer to my Countrimens freendly acceptance the Spagericall practises of Iose∣phus Quercetanus, augmented with diuers rare se∣crets not commonly knowne, all which J doubt not, will with more fauour be receiued in generall, if they may be graciously shadowed and defended vnder your wor∣shipfull name, whose prosperous successe in all your ho∣norable and vertuous attempts & actions, with a most deuote affection, J doe most earnestly wish.
Your dutifull Seruaunt, Iohn Hester.