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| | A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF CRYPTOGRAPHY |
 | | This work, certainly a long and sufficiently involved composition, and one also which is wrapped from beginning to end in a perfect cloud of uncertainty, I still present to the reader in the Third Book, in an Elucidation which is short, clear, and unclouded by obscurities.? |
 | | With regard to this subject, as being the most important part of Cryptography, or the first object of my enquiry, I shall make a few introductory remarks, requesting that you consider, what I shall say on this matter, is also for the most part said with reference to the whole art.? |
 | | Since Selenus, as a likeness of the genius Divine, has this art described in method so easy and so learned, there is reason why the wise mind and the friend should alike render him thanks, -- asking for the author long length of life. |
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