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The Epistle
DEDICATORY
TO THE
BOOK-SELLERS
OF
LONDON.
Gentlemen,
It hath been one of the greatest Errors inmost Authors to think by their high Dedicationsto advance their Books, when as onthe contrary, I have known some of the bettersort of Books (though Dedicated to Worshipful,Honorable, Illustrious, and ReverendPatrons; nay and sometimes to Majestyit self) instead of being preferred in Book-sellersshops (and according to their meritbound in Turky or Murrey Leather gilt, andrichly adorned) only to be found in looseiisheets at Cooks and Tobacco-shops, disposedunder greasie Pies, to stop Mustard-pots, andto wrap up Mundungoes Tobacco, or at best(after more cost than was intended by theAuthor in damasking and figuring it) usedin Truncks and Hat-cases: and all this hathhappened because t