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A Sonnet to the reader prefixed
to the treatise of the arte of poesie:
Since for your sake I wrytte vpon your art
Apollo, Pan, and ye ô Muses nine
And thou ô Mercure for to helpe thy part
I the emplore since thou by thy ingine
Nixt after Pan hade founde the whissell, sine
Thou did perfect that, which he bot espied
And after that made Argos for to tine
Who keeped Io, all his windowes by it
Concurre ye Gods I can not be denied
Since of your art of poësie I writte
that birds will learne by teaching it is tried
Sic docens discam, if ye helpe to dicte
Then reader see of nature thou haue part
Sine lackes thou noght, bot here to reade the art.
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