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The Authour.
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[In the 1587 edition this lenvoy is rewritten and a body of new work, consisting of the tragedies of Emerianus, Chirinnus, and Varianus, and three new lenvoys, is introduced. These additions are printed below, on pp. 281-88.]

I could not thus departe to take my reste,
For Morpheus bad me byde and heare the laste.
“(quoth he) behinde as yet, is one the beste:
“Do stay a whyle, giue eare till he be paste.
And therewithall approtched one full faste,
The worthiest wight I euer erste did see:
These woordes he spake, or like it seemed mee.