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TO THE (SIR REVERENCE) RICH VVORSHIPPED Mr TRIM TRAM SENCELES, GREAT IMAGE OF AVTHORITY and Hedgborough of the famous City of Goteham, and to the rest of that admired and vnmatchable Senate, with their Corruptions and Families.
MOst Honorificicabilitudinitatibus, I hauing studied the seuen Lubberly Sciences (being nine by computa∣tion) out of which I gathered three coniunctions foure mile Asse-vnder, which with much labour, and great ease, to little or no purpose, I haue noddicated to your gray, graue, and grauelled Prate ••ction. I doubt not but I might haue had a Patron neerer hand, as the Deane of Dunsta∣ble, or the Beadle of Layton Buzzard, but that I know the Phrase, Methode and Stile, is not for euery mans vnderstanding, no my most renowned Pythagor-Asses, for you this Hogshead of inuention was brewed and broched, for I am ignorantly perswaded, that your wise∣dome can picke as much matter out of this Booke in one day, as both the Vniuersities can in twelue moneths, and thirteene Moones, with six times foure yeeres to boot. I know your bounties too exding, for as old mother Baly said, the wit of man was much, when she saw a dog muzzled. E∣uery man is not borne to make a Monument for the Cuckoo; to send a Trifoote home alone, to driue sheepe before they haue them, or to Trundle cheeses downe a hill. So saluting you with more prespect then the Mayor of Loo did the Queenes Ape, I take leaue to leaue you, and rest yours to bid you welcome, if you came within a mile of my house to stay all night.
Yours Rolihaytons.