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It hath beene twice my fortune in short time to haue imploiment for this Noble Societye, where I haue alwayes mette with men of much vnderstanding, and no lesse bounty, to whom cost appeares but as a shadow, so there be fulnesse of content in the performance of the solemnity, which that the world may iudge of, for whose pleasure & satisfaction, custome hath yeerly framde it, (but chiefly for the honor of the City) it begins to present it selfe, not without forme and order, which is required in the meanest emploiment.