phers neglected your worldly advantages to become maſters of that which hath now rendred you both truly honorable. If I had as many languages as your ſelves, the rhetoricall and patheticall expreſsions thereof would fail to ſignifie my eſtimation of, and affections towards you both. Now Sir! as in reference to this my tranſlation, if your judgement ſhall finde a deficiency therein, let your candor make a ſupply thereof. Let this Treatiſe of Occult Philoſophy coming as a ſtranger amongſt the Engliſh, be patronized by you, remembring that you your ſelf was once a ſtranger in the Country of its Nativity. This ſtranger I have dreſſed in an Engliſh garb; but if it be not according to the faſhion, and therefore ungrateful to any, let your approbation make it the mode; you know ſtrangers moſt commonly induce a faſhion, eſpecially if any once begin to approve of their habit. Your approbation is that which will ſtand in need of, and which will render me,
SIR,
Moſt obligedly yours,
J. F.
