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TO THE READER.
Honest Reader,
Apelles by the proportion of a foot, could make the whole proportion
of a man:
now are thousands can by opinion proportion Kingdomes, Cities,
and Lordships, that never durst adventure to see them. Malignancy,
I expect from those, have lived 10. or 12. yeares in those actions, and
returne as wise as they went, claiming time and experience for their
tutor, that can neither shift Sun nor Moone, nor say their Compasse,
yet will tell you of more than all the world, betwixt the Exchange,
Pauls and Westminster: so it be newes, it matters not what,
that will passe currant when truth must be stayed with an army of
conceits that can make or marre any thing, and tell as well what all
England is by seeing but Milford haven, as what Apelles was by the
picture of his great toe. Now because examples give a quicker impression
than arguments, I have writ this discourse to satisfie understanding,
wisdome, and honesty, and not such as can doe nothing but
finde fault with that they neither know nor can amend. So I rest
Your friend
John Smith.
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