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¶ Necessarie Rules, for Englishmen to learne to reade, speake, and write true Italian,
GOd geue you good morow sir: you may see, I doo not forget our appoyntment yester day, for I am come according to promise.
By my faith sir, you are welcome hartily, but I haue almost forgot what our appoyntment was.
And are you so forgetful? I beleeue it not: wel let that passe. Truly sir, the profit which I haue reaped from out the plea∣sant conceites of your Dialogues, is such, as would you but prescribe some perfect Methode, for the true pronuntiation of the Italian tongue, as you haue already induced me into a direct course, for the true interpretation of it (certainely) you should not onely pleasure me, but a great many moe of my Countreymen.
Sir, to finishe the vnperfect picture of the most perfect Paynter, or make a seconde description of Troies destructi∣on, sith Apelles hym selfe found a Shoomaker, and Homer a Zoilus: as the one is to be of no man commended. so is the other to be of al men condemned. The note of Cesars Po∣piniayes, hath geuen a Caue to the Coblers Aue: neither wil the foulenesse of a Crowe allowe his crowing amongst the coloured foules: neither can the fayrenesse of the Mercers shop, allow the foulenesse of the Dyers Lead.
And yet is the Dyers Lead, such an accidence in Subie∣cto, as were it not incident to the Mercers wares, the finest silke in al his shoppe woulde neither Subsistere, nor substare per se. And sith you are a Dyer by profession, wee wyll be Mercers by confession. Onely perswade your selfe, that the silke is already in the Leade: Now let vs see, if al the co∣lours you haue, are able, of naturall Englishmen, to dye vs into artificial Italians.
Sir, your importunitie in demaunding, inferreth so fyt