Preface.

with an entirely diligent request to offer: that you may be pleased to accept such a publication, which has been done for the best of the common good, and furthermore that I might do a kindness for the sake of my good friend, the author, and take this little work original: "Opusculum" under your protection, and be my favorable Gentlemen. In whatever way I may further show my modest services to the same, I am at all times willing, ready, and diligent. Dated Leipzig, the 1st of September, Anno 1613.