<p type="head"> <s>The Fir&longs;t Dialogue.</s></p>

<p type="head"> <s><emph type="italics"/>INTERLOCUTORS,<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>

<p type="head"> <s>SALVIATUS, SAGREDUS, and SIMPLICIUS.</s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>SALVIATUS.</s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>The frequent re&longs;ort (Gentlemen) to <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg984"></arrow.to.target><lb/>
your Famous Ar&longs;enal of <emph type="italics"/>Venice,<emph.end type="italics"/> pre&longs;en&shy;<lb/>
teth, in my thinking, to your Speculative <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg985"></arrow.to.target><lb/>
Wits, a large field to Philo&longs;ophate in: <lb/>
and more particularly, as to that part <lb/>
which is called the <emph type="italics"/>Mechanicks:<emph.end type="italics"/> in re&shy;<lb/>
gard that there all kinds of Engines, and <lb/>
Machines are continually put in u&longs;e, by a <lb/>
huge number of Artificers of all &longs;orts; <lb/>
among&longs;t whom, as well through the ob&longs;ervations of their Prede&shy;<lb/>
ce&longs;&longs;ors, as tho&longs;e, which through their own care they continually <lb/>
are making, it's probable, that there are &longs;ome very learned, and <lb/>
bravely di&longs;cours'd Men.</s></p>

<p type="margin"> <s><margin.target id="marg984"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>A De&longs;cription of <lb/>
the Ar&longs;enal of<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
Venice.</s></p>

<p type="margin"> <s><margin.target id="marg985"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>It is a large field <lb/>
for Wits to Philo&shy;<lb/>
&longs;ophate in.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>SAGR. Sir, you are not therein mi&longs;taken: and I my &longs;elf, out of