I have cured many, and doubt not but they will grow more and more in request. ... It is Medicina adepta : itaque, carpere vel noli nostra, vel ede tua. Commend it; or Come, mend it."
"
As for you, my Countrymen, that study Physick, and philosophy in your
Mothr Tongue (not with intent to deceive the People by damnable
Fortune-Telling, or Witchcraft), I humbly desire your kind acceptance
of this my last Work in this kind of Physick.
"
The Lord bless, and preserve you in all the wayes of Health, and
Happiness : and give you both inward and outward riches, according to
your publick Spirits, for the Honour of our God, King, and country. So
prayeth your truly loving Countryman, and ready Servant, William
Rowland."
And so piously beseecheth the present author. " The writing of ' Precious Stones, and Noble Metals,' "—as Kingsley said of Westward Ho, has
" done him good." He has been " living among the primitive books of old
Hebrew faith, Classic lore, and Elizabethan learning ; among grand, devout, beautiful, silent men."
