Business, and follow it close with great Application. And if you are
really in earned, and set about it heartily, you will rejoyce as one
that has Travelled all Night do's when the Sun rises upon him, and will
receive a Blessing for your Labour, and take delight in your Lord, and
he will delight in you. And for my own part, you will find me, according
to your own Hearts desire, just such an one as you could wish; and I
hope that I shall lead you in the right way, free from Evils and
Dangers: and really I perceive some Glimmerings now, by the help of
which I shall inflame your Desire, and put you upon entring this way, by
telling you the Story of _Hai Ebn Yokdhan_ and _Asâl_, and _Salâman_ (as
_Avicenna_ calls them); in which, those that understand themselves right
will find matter of Improvement, and worthy their Imitation.


FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: In the Name, &c--_This is the usual Form with which the_
Mahometans _begin all their Writings, Books and Epistles.
Every Chapter in the_ Alcoran _begins so, and all their Authors
have followed this way ever price. The Eastern Christians, to distinguish
themselves from the_ Mahometans, _begin their Writings
with_ Bismi'labi Wa'libni, _&c_. In the Name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, One God:_and so do
the_ Æthiopians. _We here in_ England _observe something like
this in Wills, where the usual Form is_, In the Name of God,
Amen.]

[Footnote 2: _These words_,--Who hath taught us the Use of the Pen;
who hath taught Man what he did not know, _are taken out of the_
XCVI. _Chapter of the_ Alcoran, _according to those Editions