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TO THE READER.
Entirelie
I and tenderlie entreat,
If you haue leasure, and th'Effayres not great,
To take some tyme, and to survey this Table:
VVhich well perused, shall prooue profitable.
VVhere thou thy selfe in some of these shalt sie
Portrayd, if eyther Good or Bad thou bee.
If you haue leasure, and th'Effayres not great,
To take some tyme, and to survey this Table:
VVhich well perused, shall prooue profitable.
VVhere thou thy selfe in some of these shalt sie
Portrayd, if eyther Good or Bad thou bee.
If good, insist, and make a Progresse still:
And if perverse, pray, and repent thine ill.
But I would wish, that thou thy selfe find foorth,
Amongst the best and worthie for thy worth.
Disdaine not then, nor loathe thou for to looke
Vpon the Tenor of this tabled Booke.
And if perverse, pray, and repent thine ill.
But I would wish, that thou thy selfe find foorth,
Amongst the best and worthie for thy worth.
Disdaine not then, nor loathe thou for to looke
Vpon the Tenor of this tabled Booke.
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Nor scorne thy Misses mongst these Maps to marke,
Albeit they bee not cut in curious VVorke:
As these, Apelles to the Lyse had limm'd
Or Hondius hand had them attyrd and trimm'd,
Yet sagely searched thou in These shalt see,
Tho not to please, yet what may profit thee.
Albeit they bee not cut in curious VVorke:
As these, Apelles to the Lyse had limm'd
Or Hondius hand had them attyrd and trimm'd,
Yet sagely searched thou in These shalt see,
Tho not to please, yet what may profit thee.
Even as justly you merit
So AL GARDEN inherit.
So AL GARDEN inherit.
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