Page:The Art of Distillation, 1651.djvu/3

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To my much honoured friend
Tobias Garbrand,
Doctor of Physick, and
Principal of Glocester Hall in
Oxford.

Sir!

IT is my ambition to let the world know upon what ſcore it is that I do eſpecially honour men. It is not Sir! as they are high born Heirs of the great potentates, for which moſt honour them (and upon which account I alſo ſhal not deny them their due) but as they excell in honeſty,

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