The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented unto the queen / by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.
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- The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented unto the queen / by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.
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- London :: Printed for Nath. Brooke,
- 1659.
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- Recipes.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Queens closet opened incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented unto the queen / by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52209.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2025.
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TO THE Ingenious & Courteous READER.
Reader,
IT being at first the general good which caused us to publish this useful and compleat Piece, we could not chuse but for the same end give it a new Birth; espe∣cially when we heard that we had so well attain'd what we sought, in regard of the benefit which so many have receiv'd from these, which we shall now rather call
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Experiments then Receipts, con∣tained therein. In short, we may say that it hath had a general Re∣ception, travelling up and down the Kingdoms, and like the good Samaritane giving comfort to all it met; neither have we known of any that have bought it, who have not testified their high Esteem thereof. And indeed how should it otherwise be, knowing out of what Elaboratories it was produ∣ced: Nor is it without its variety, here preserving the fruits of the Earth with such a curious neatness, as if it would shew, that though Summer gave those pleasant fruits, yet that Art is able to make Winter richer then her self: or if this this please not, teaching you to furnish the Tables of Princes with such a Grandezza as befits them. But as for the Physicall part, what can be more noble then that which gives the rich such an
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opportunity of spending upon good works, while they succour the poor, and give comfort to them in their greatest distresses. If we have given it too narrow a praise, for too large an Encomium, I am sure we cannot attribute to it, considering its true value; it is not what we intended, though we are glad to see its own high deserts, carrying it so much above the reach of a more then common repute. 'Tis true there may be some faults, and those may justly cause us to be blamed: but now we hope your Ingenuity will the rather forgive us and them, and with more diligence seek to amend what is amiss, if not for our sakes, yet out of Charity to a Work which is so charitable to your selves.
Farewell, W. M.