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more willingly undertaken for the benefit of all that will take pains to perufe this work, becaufe I am now difabled by age and many infirmi- ties to produce any further labours of mine own in this kind; where- in I have not been wanting in my more able and mature times, accord - in g to the proportion dryly fmall ta- lent which my great Lord and Ma- iler hath entrusted me with: Herein imitating the example of the weaker fex, who after they have been fruit- full in bearing children themfelves, and now being corne to older age are difabled to have any more con- ceptions, do foine of them become midwives, who are helpfull to thofe who are young and fruitfull for the bringing of their children into the world. The