Before thou goest on further to the perusing of this Work, thou art humbly intreated by the Authour, to forgive him his Anglicisme; for being born a Forreigner, and having had no body to help him to the polishing of it, for several reasons, it cannot be expected he should please thine Ears, so much as he may perhaps do thy Fancy. Every Exotick Plant can hardly become Domestical under one or two Generations: Besides that, the Crabbedness of the Original in his own Idiome, can scarce admit a Polite Eloquency in another. The very Antient _English_ Language in this refined Age, is become both obsolete and unintelligible, as we may see in _Chaucer_, _Gower_, and others. If you adde to this, that the Authours Nation hath been alwayes famous for its Civility to those that were Strangers to their Language, as not onely to abstain from laughing at them when they spoke amiss, but also in redressing them charitably to the best of their power. I may probably expect you will measure me with the same measure, as you would be if you were in my case. As for the Errataes of the Press, I could not help them, being out of Town most part of the time that the Book was a Printing; when you meet with any, I hope your Charitable Pen will either mend or obliterate them, and not lay another mans fault upon me, who neither for pride nor ostentation undertook this laborious Work, but that I might give some Satisfaction and Recreation to the Learned and Curious, who have had a longing for it ever since its Birth. _Farewell._ IN Explicatum à doctissimo sagacissimoq; Viro Domino De GARENCIERES FAMOSI Nostradami Vaticinium. _Abdita qui medici legit præsagia Vatis,_ _Non valet hoc quisquam pandere carmen, ait._ _Falleris, en Medicus merito quoque nomine Vates,_ _Invia luminibus permeat antra novis._ _Sed minus ingenio tantum mirere laborem_ _Id succisivo tempore fecit opus._ Petrus Cottereau. Aliud. _Præteritos in vate tuo cognoscere casus_ _Vix licet; ast etiam nota futura tibi._ _Si potes è mediis lucem proferre tenebris;_ _Ipsa metallorum semina te-ne latent?_ _Nulla tuum fugiunt naturæ arcana cerebrum,_ _Per quem ~Nostradami~ Pythica verba patent._ Idem. Perenni Famæ Doctissimi Viri _Theophili de Garencieres_ Doctoris Medici Colleg. _Lond._ de Interpretatione _NOSTRADAMI_ Fatidici Tetrastichon hoc dicavit. Dudleyus, _dimidia pars ipsius animæ_. _Qvæ primus fecit, facit illa secundus ~Apollo~,_ _Conjungens medicis oracula sacra triumphis._ _Quis major, rogitas? facile est discernere noris_ _Si Latonigenæ cessare oracula ~Phœbi~._ _By the same, To the Author of this, and a more Excellent Work._ Mystically.