When this harangue was over, I withdrew, and left the rest of the ceremony to be perform’d by my orator _Mithridates_, who descanted a long while upon my great experience and skill, my travels, and great adventures in foreign countries; the testimonials, certificates, medals, and the like favours, I had receiv’d from most of the crown’d heads and princes in the universe. And when this was over, order’d _Matt. Gilliflower_ and _Dick Bently_, two of my footmen to disperse printed copies of my bill among the people, together with the catalogue of the cures by me formerly perform’d in your upper hemisphere; both which papers, because they contain something singular in them, and are written above the common strain, I have given my self the trouble to transcribe. _Thesaurum & talentum ne abscondas in agro._ _Signior_ GUISIPPE HANESIO, High German _Astrologer and Chymist; seventh son of a son, unborn doctor of above sixty years experience, educated at twelve universities, having travelled thro’ fifty two kingdoms, and been counsellor to counsellors of several monarchs_. _Hoc juris publici in communem utilitatem publicum fecit._ Who by the blessing of _Æsculapius_ on his great pains, travels, and nocturnal lucubrations, has attain’d to a greater share of knowledge than any person before him was ever known to do. _Imprimis_, Gentlemen, I present you with my universal solutive, or _Cathartic Elixir_, which corrects all the cacochymic and cachexical diseases of the intestines; cures all internal and external diseases, all vertiginous vapours, hydrocephalus, giddiness, or swimming of the head, epileptic fits, flowing of the gall, stoppage of urine, ulcers in the womb and bladder; with many other distempers, not hitherto distinguish’d by name. _Secondly_, My friendly pill, call’d, _the never failing Heliogenes_, being the tincture of the sun, and deriving vigour, influence and dominion, from the same light; it causes all complexions to laugh or smile, even in the very time of taking it; which it effects, by dilating and expanding the gelastic muscles, first of all discover’d by my self. It dulcifies the whole mass of the blood, maintains its [Illustration: _Joe Haynes’s Mountebankˢ Speech_ _Vol: II. P. 140._]