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Antony Munday to all curteous and freendly Readers in commendation of this VVoork.
As
Tully did of vertuous life define,
And Ouid paint the od conceits of looue:
And Maro squared in a direct line,
The hard assaults that valiant harts did prooue,
In bloody Battels for their fames behooue.
As fliering Fortune should them chaunce to pay:
In vaunting verse as Maro tels the vvay.
And Ouid paint the od conceits of looue:
And Maro squared in a direct line,
The hard assaults that valiant harts did prooue,
In bloody Battels for their fames behooue.
As fliering Fortune should them chaunce to pay:
In vaunting verse as Maro tels the vvay.
But leauing novv at large such fond delights,
Such Fables fond as pratling Poets vse:
This Author heer presenteth to your sights,
Such tales of truoth as may you force to muse.
To iudge aright the crime of eche abuse,
As heer tvvixt Sim and Pierce he dooth compound:
Such vvise conceits as seldome hath been found.
Such Fables fond as pratling Poets vse:
This Author heer presenteth to your sights,
Such tales of truoth as may you force to muse.
To iudge aright the crime of eche abuse,
As heer tvvixt Sim and Pierce he dooth compound:
Such vvise conceits as seldome hath been found.
VVhen you haue red, Iudge then the Authors paines,
His tedious toyle in vvisshing vvel to thee:
Thy Freendly thanks, he craues no other gaines,
VVhich vnto him more vvelcome sure shall bee,
Then riches store if thou couldst giue it free.
VVherfore my Freends doo this at my request:
To heare and see and alvvay say the best.
His tedious toyle in vvisshing vvel to thee:
Thy Freendly thanks, he craues no other gaines,
VVhich vnto him more vvelcome sure shall bee,
Then riches store if thou couldst giue it free.
VVherfore my Freends doo this at my request:
To heare and see and alvvay say the best.
Honos alit Artes.
A. M.
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