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To my good Friend Mr. Iohn Partridge upon his Translation.
FAm'd Lilly did the Astrologick Art
To English Men in English first impart;
This Work of his thou didst abbreviate,
Refining it at neat methodick rate.
Great Mynsicht, in Poeonian Art renown'd,
A Treasury for the Latine World did found,
Wherein are laid of Iewels a great store,
Which were to Phoebus's Sons unknown before:
This on us English thou dost now bestow,
Such as none else, save Mother-tongue, do know.
As Mynsicht's Glory doth through Latium flourish,
So England shall thy Praises ever nourish.
Johannes Gibbon Fecialis Anglicus, Titulo Mantelii Caerulei.