1pThe Secrets and Experiments of
Mathewe Lucatell þe
Mister Chirurgion of Venice.
To þe right worshipfull Sir. Richard Mullineux
5Knight and Barronett Mathewe Lucatelly wisheth
all healthe and increase of many happie daies.
[I] have presumed (Right Worshipfull) to make a tender of a
certaine number of my experiments to your Worship as well in
respect þat your worship. hath vouchsafed to take notice of my
10self and hath beene a witnesse of þe effectual operation of
many of these compositions as also because of þe many favours
which your Worship hath vouchsaved me beinge strong
obligations tying me according to my power to make
expression of my grateful respect which ex debilo you may
15justly challendge. There is no age can live without Physick
nor person without Chirurgerie, nor country without þe use
of these noble misteries. And howsoever I know considering
earthly means besides your worshipps own judgment you can
want no aide to nature, nor medicine to maladie; notwithstanding as þe widdowes mite, I do with a free heart cast
20them into your worshipps treasury: hoping you will conceive
my gift to be a remonstrance of my gratitude; though it
carry no proportion to your merritt. I once intended to have
communicated it to þe publick use by presse, but afterward
I changed my resolution: And your worshipp hath it written
25not printed: though not from an unwillingness of doing good,
but because I would not have these things common to all which
are only to be particular to few. Thus humbly begging your
Worshipps good grace and countenance still to shine toward me.
I shall not only in this but also also in all other possibilities be ready to offer them with myself as free sacrifices to
30Your Worshipps dispose, and shall continually imploy my