Text.BP190.!7v/Translation

Spagyric artist's personification to the reader.

In vain did you, Muses, bring help, and you, Laurel, who decently binds my head, have adorned my charming head with decorations. Unless so many delights, so many charms, would now yield me friends as rivals. Therefore, by rubbing my forehead searching for the knot that binds up to the hair while it displeases to see the middle: just let not such beauty lie neglected in worry. And if not the face moves you, and not the fitting blush, nor the one falling from a rosy mouth, at least may my wealth, which can make happy, please make him a companion, I pray.

Verteuillius of Bordeaux.

Do not scorn this book, or teach us better things. For it is shameful to criticize others and know nothing.