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To the captious Reader.

What thou maist say or think now, 'tis no matter;
But if thou busily imagine here,
Sith most of these are great ones that I flatter;
Know, sacred Iustice is to me so deare,
Did not their vertues in my thoughts thus raise thē,
To get an Empire by them, I'de not praise them.