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