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E. G. To the reader.

Like as the spring by natures course doth breed
The sundry sortes of flowers of pleasant hew:
And clothes the earth with hearbes that thēce proceed,
Sweete for their sent, and pleasant to the vew:
Wheron the mynde of man is fixed fast,
Reuiued now, duld by the winter past:
So in this spring, that earthly thinges doth chere,
Kendall sends forth the flowers that he hath got,


Of Epigrammes, by pluckyng here and there
Of learned men, from many a Garden plot.
Smell of his flowers, resort vnto this felde,
The Gardens be of price that these do yelde.