Dedication Book 3
Reading edition
TO THE Right Honourable WILLIAM Lord Vi-Count BROUNCKER THE PRESIDENT; AND TO THE Council and Fellows OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
MY LORD,
THE Commands I received from Your Lordship, and the Royal Society, To prosecute the Subject treated of in the Two former Books; have produced This which follows. And I humbly submit the same to Your Lordships Judgment: which must needs be Candid and Benign, because it is Great. I have only this to say,
——Ἐς Τροίαν πειρώμενοι ἦνθον Ἀχαιοί;
Your Lordship will not disapprove the Enterprise, although it falls short of perfection. It being the result of Your Lordships manifold Virtues and Abilities, That You know how far to Encourage the meanest Attempts; as well as rightly to Value and Assist the greatest Performances.
I am,
My Lord,
Your Lordships
most humble
and
most obsequious
Servant
NEHEMJAH GREW.
London, August 20. 1675.