The Privileges and Licences / which
have been conferred on this little treatise.
This little work has been
granted the following privilege /
by the mighty and invisible, /
and so therefore completely
invincible, Grand King of this
world's most vast and populous
territory - Selene* (in which land
the women, / according to
Lucian, / lay whole baskets
full of eggs / and hatch out their
exactly identical offspring by
the dozen ) namely, that anyone
is entitled to buy it / who has
sufficient inclination, / good will,
and money to pay for it - irrespective
of whether he may happen to be
learned or ignorant, / rich or poor, /
an important person or a nobody /
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* Gk. 'The Moon'