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This present boke called the Gouernaunce of Kynges and prynces

Imprynted at the co[m]maundement of the good and honourable syre Charles Somerset Lorde Herbert: and Chaumberleyne unto oure Soueraygne lorde kynge Henry the .viii. [by John Lydgate]
Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?)

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[The Gouernance of Kynges and Prynces.]
 
The forme of the firste Pystyll that kynge Alysaundre sent to his mayster Arystotyles.
 
The seconde Pystyll that kynge Alysaundre sent to Arystotyles.
 
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AMEN

Goo lytell boke/and mekely do me excuse.
To all tho that/shall these or rede.
If ony man thy rudenesse/lyste accuse.
Make no dyfference/but with lowlyhede.
Praye hym reforme/where as he seyth nede.
To that entent/I do the forthe directe.
Where thou fayllest/that men shall the correcte.
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