Examen de ingenios. = The examination of mens vvits In whicch [sic], by discouering the varietie of natures, is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein. By Iohn Huarte. Translated out of the Spanish tongue by M. Camillo Camili. Englished out of his Italian, by R.C. Esquire.

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Examen de ingenios. = The examination of mens vvits In whicch [sic], by discouering the varietie of natures, is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein. By Iohn Huarte. Translated out of the Spanish tongue by M. Camillo Camili. Englished out of his Italian, by R.C. Esquire.
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Huarte, Juan, 1529?-1588.
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London :: Printed by Adam Islip, for Richard Watkins,
1594.
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"Examen de ingenios. = The examination of mens vvits In whicch [sic], by discouering the varietie of natures, is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein. By Iohn Huarte. Translated out of the Spanish tongue by M. Camillo Camili. Englished out of his Italian, by R.C. Esquire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03771.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2025.

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TO THE RIGHT WOR∣SHIPFVL SIR FRANCIS GODOL∣PHIN KNIGHT, ONE OF THE DE∣PVTIE LIEVTENANTS OF CORNWAILE.

GOod Sir, your Bookereturneth vnto you clad in a Cornish ga∣bardine, which if it become him not wel, the fault is not in the stuffe, but in the botching Tailor, who neuer bound Prentice to the occupation, and working only for his passe-time, could hardly obserue the precise rules of mea∣sure: but such as it is, yours it is, and yours is the workeman, entirely addicted to reue∣rence you for your vertues, to loue you for your kindnesse, and so more readie in de∣sire, than able in power to testifie the same, doe with my dewest remembrance take leaue, resting

At your disposition, R. C.

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