For in them are frutefull and godlye documentes, directing ordinatly not on∣ly the stepps, conuersatyon, and liuing of kinges: but also of other mynisters and subiectes vnder hym. And let no man be greued though it be not so exactlye done as he did speake it, for in very dede I am not able so to do, to write word for word as he did speake, that passeth my capacitie though I hadde .xx. mens wittes, and no fewer handes to wryte withal. As it is vn¦possyble that a litell ryuer should receyue the recourse of the main sea wt in his brym¦mes, so that no water should ouer whelm the sides therof: In lyke maner is it more vnlyke my symle witte to comprehende absolutely the abundaunt eloquence and learnyng which floweth most abundantli out of godly Latymers mouth.Notwithstandyng, yet had I rather with shamefastnes declare charitably thys parte of hys godly documentes, & counsel then with slowthfulnes forgette or kepe close folyshly, that thyng which may pro∣fit many.Who is that wyll not be glad to heare and beleue the doctryne of godly Lati∣mer? Whome God hath appoynted a prophet, vnto our most noble Kyng, and 0