At the sign of the moon and stars in Leopard's Court in Baldwins-Gardens near Holborn, lives a gentleman, who by the benefit of a learned education in the University of Louvain, daily study and 30 years practice and travels : has arrived to a greater perfection in several arts than the common practioners in physick and astrology can justly pretend to.

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