To the worthily Honored Sir Henry Baker, Knight-Baronet.
Tis
better late, than never to repay:
Better a little, than no Part at all:
Take therfore, in good-part, This Part (though smal)
Of your great Debt: and pardon my Delay,
Till (more mine Owne) with more Respect, I may
In better Measure (as I hope, I shall)
Answere your Merit; though not answere all
Your Bounties Bonds, renewed Day by Day.
Yov minde your Maker, in your Dayes of Youth:
You shew vs, by your Works, your Faith's sincerity:
You are so friendly to the Friends of Truth,
Your vertuous Life so proves your Love to Veritle,
That None I thought, could, with more patient Eye,
Abide to look on this ANATOMIE.
Your Vertues Humble Honorer, Iosvah Sylvester.
