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¶ Coplande the prynter to the auctour.
¶ Your mynde consydered / & your good entent
Theffecte regarded / in euery maner case
your cyrcumstaunce / and labour dylygent
Who wyll construe / is of grete effycace
your sentences morally tenbrace
Concerneth reason of ••auryate grauyte
yonge tender hertes / tal••cte with amyte
¶ your arge also flourynge in vyrent youthe
So to bestowe is gretly to commende
Bookes to endyte of maters ryght vncouthe
Ensample gyuynge to all suche as pretende
In tharte of loue theyr myndes to condescende
In termes freshe / theyr courage to endewe
Not with rude toyes / but elegant and newe
¶ yet ben there many that lytell regarde
your pleasures castell inhabyte with beaute
And I am sure wolde gyue but small rewarde
For this your labour / and studyous dyte
But had ye compyled some maner subtylte
Lucre to gete / theyr neyghbour to begyle
They wolde alowe it a perfyte dyscrete style
¶ Thauctour.
¶ My boke of loue / belonges to no suche arte
But to the pleasure / is his hoole affeccyon
Of gentyll people / whiche lyketh to take parte
In pleasaunt youth / with amorous dyleccyon
Honour regarded / in clene cyrcumspeccyon
Layenge a parte▪ all wylfull vayne desyre