Friendly Reader,
I Know all Perſons
that have a publick
Spirit for the Ad
vancement of Lear
ning, will think much that this
piece came not out in a Lan
guage of more general Uſe,
then this you ſee it now attir'd
in; eſpecially ſince the Excel
lent Noble Perſon, who is the
Author, is known to be well a
ble himſelf (being almoſt uni
verſally a Linguiſt) to have gi
ven it either the Old Latin, or
that have a publick
Spirit for the Ad
vancement of Lear
ning, will think much that this
piece came not out in a Lan
guage of more general Uſe,
then this you ſee it now attir'd
in; eſpecially ſince the Excel
lent Noble Perſon, who is the
Author, is known to be well a
ble himſelf (being almoſt uni
verſally a Linguiſt) to have gi
ven it either the Old Latin, or