The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
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- The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
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- Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575.
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- [Prynted at London :: By [E. Whitchurch for] Richard Bankes,
- [1542?]]
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"The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13401.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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¶ Rycharde Tauerner to the gentle readers.
I Confesse my selfe a debtor unto you, gentle readers, in yt I promysed in my for mer boke to adde the secōd Assuredly, although I haue marked that thys argument of wrytynge is not ingrate vnto you, as well for the varietie of the matter, as for the shar∣penes of the sentencies (for whyche consideration they were called of the Grekes Apophthegmata, that is to saye, shorte and quycke speakynges) yet for my sondry occupations wher wyth I am dyuersly interrupted, I shall not be able to make my promyse good, namely, in such sorte as I may satisfye, eyther youre expectation, or myne owne. Wherfore I muste de∣syre you, not only to pardon myn in∣condite and grosse phrase, on whych
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ye shal happen to stomble, but also to wynke at the cōfuse order herin. For ordre in thys boke, I protest, I kepe none, but accordynge to the prouerbe that fyrst commeth to the hande that I write. And thus fare you well, and se ye fauour myne honest endeuours.