The text of this e-book has been preserved as in the original, including inconsistent capitalisation and hyphenation. Archaic and inconsistent spellings have also been preserved except where obviously misspelled in the original.

To assist readers, an additional item (‘Editor’s Introduction’) has been added to the table of contents, and an alphabetic jump-table has been inserted at the beginning of the index. Hyperlinks have been added to index entries and the table of contents, and to cross-references within the text. Page numbers are shown in the right margin and footnotes are located at the end. Footnotes are listed at the end.

Spelling inconsistencies include (but are not limited to) the following:
 Fifty/Fiftie
 enjoy/enioye
 natural/naturall
 physitians/physicians
 book/booke
 aëreal/aereal/aërial

Corrected misspellings include the following:
 preceive → perceive
 under-their → understand their
 retrogade → retrograde
 aditional → additional
 aud → and
 so → to
 Valkveld → Vlackveld
 slugglishly → sluggishly

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