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TO HIS Ingenious Frend the Author, Mr. MIDDLETON.
THe studious Tyro, whose aspiring brain Aims at the Myst'ries of the Starry train, Needs not Icarian wings to soar on high, He needs no passage through the starry skie: For you expand a safe and shorter way To all the Secrets of ƲRANIA. With so much ease and singular delight, You teach Astrophilus, (to speak the right) You are so plain an Astrologick guide, Great puzling Volumes will be laid aside: For what at large they have obscurely known, You have compacted clearly in this one; Like him, who (if he's not by Fame bely'd) Did Homer's Iliad's in a Nut-shell hide. In fine, your skill it cannot be exprest By man; this BOOK alone can do it best.☿ Mercurius Ignotus, alias Guil. Surius, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.