A horizontal decorative border strip consists of repeating floral and fleur-de-lis motifs in a woodcut style.

To the favorable reader.

Ornate decorative initial letter G, featuring intricate interlaced floral and foliage patterns within a square frame.Favorable and art-loving reader / it is customary
in a theater, in which plays are performed / to have mainly three types of persons:
Some who act and play: The others who
command and instruct: The third who watch.
Are, however, not those who watch / because they are free of all
worries and business / the most fortunate? For the others
are partly burdened with worries / the others, however, with toil and labor.

The very same thing occurs also in this our present
Theater or book of spectacles: For the first inventors of the
artful machination machine-building have been burdened with great and manifold worries,
in that they have diligently pondered the foundation of the art,
and through manifold speculation reflection have invented various machinas machines.
It also does not happen without great toil and labor when one
wishes to bring together these machinas, which were invented by
sharp-minded people, from their and others' posthumous writings,
and make one book out of many. These machinas