The gentlemans exercise Or an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures: as also the making of all kinds of colours, to be vsed in lymming, painting, tricking, and blason of coates, and armes, with diuers others most delightfull and pleasurable obseruations, for all yong gentlemen and others. As also seruing for the necessarie vse and generall benefite of diuers trades-men and artificers, as namly painters, ioyners, free-masons, cutters and caruers, &c. for the farther gracing, beautifying, and garnishing of all their absolute and worthie peeces, either for borders, architecks, or columnes, &c. By Henrie Peacham Master of Artes.

The Author to the Reader.

LEt me intreate thee (Iudi••ious Reader) to amend eithe•• in thy reading, or with thy Penne the faults ensuing, which by reason of my often absence (hauing ha•• extraordinary bu∣sinesse) haue escaped the Presse, they are these that follow.

In my Latine verses at the beginning: for regni quis l••mes Edeni, read, ••egui qu••s limes Ed••n••. Pag. ••. ••or A••olia, r. A••oliab. p. 7. for Sand∣scape, r. Landscape. p 47. for. ••iue lines, r. fiu••: lines. p 50. for Dutch peers, r. Dutch peeces. p. 56 for Birds of Prag. Birds of praie. p 62. lin. ••. for ••mission, r. intromission. p. 89. for chermeb, r. chermes. p. 125. r. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. p. 126. for, those Epistles Homer, r. those Epi••hites of Homer. p. 129. for Illiadoes, r. Illiados. p. 130. for the red, r. the rodde. p. 131. for Zephorus, r. Zepbyrus. p. 133•• for illumi••••a S••era in those verses of Ariosto, r. illumino la S••era Ibid. for vel animal, r. n••l animal. p 140. r. through the fairest st••ee••e in Rome. p. 146. for Tapasian, r. Topazion. p. 151. r. to the Emerald. p 156. for sable, r. labell. p. 157. for Neuell, r. Neuil. If Reader thou meetest any where else with the like, let me entreate thee to correct them.

Vale, hijs f••uere, meliora expecta.