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HERE HAVE I (Gentle Reader) ac∣cording to promise in my Translation, giuen thee a fewe Sonets, the vnripe seedes of my barraine braine, to plea∣sure and recreate thy wearye mind and troubled hed withal. Trusting that thou wylte not loth the bestowing thy time at vacant houres in pervsing the same. Waying that for thy so∣lace alone (the bounden dutie which I owed the noble Cown∣tesse reserued) I vndertoke this
slender toyle, and not for anye pleasure I did my selfe in pen∣ning thereof. As I deeme thou canst not, so do I hope thou wilt not mislike it at all. But if there be any thing herein that maye offend thee, refuse it, reade and pervse the reast with pacience. Let not the misliking of one member procure thee rashlye to condemne the whole. I stand to thy iudgement, I expect thy aequitie. Reade the good, and reiect the euill: yea rather con∣demne it to perpetuall silence. For so woulde I wyshe thee to
deale wyth vnworthye Boo∣kes: But assuredlye there is nothing in thys whole slender Volume that was ment amisse of me the Writer, howsoeuer the Letter goe in thy iudge∣ment that arte the Reader.
Whatsoeuer I haue penned, I write not to this purpose, that any youthlie head shoulde fo∣low or pursue such fraile affec∣tions, or taste of amorous bait: but by meere fiction of these Fantasies, I woulde warne (if I myghte) all tender age to flee that fonde and filthie affection
of poysoned & vnlawful loue. Let this be a Glasse & Myrror for them to gaze vpon: the so∣ner may I (I trust) preuayle in my perswasiō, for that my selfe am of their yeares and disposi∣tion. And as I am not the first that in this sort hath written & imployde his time: so shall I not be the last, that without de∣sarte (perhaps) shalbe misdee∣med for attempting the same. But let those curious Knightes cast an eye to home, and looke well about whether they them selues are blamelesse, or as well
worthie reproche as others. This done and my intent con∣sidered, hoping of thy courtesie I ende, alwayes readie to plea∣sure thee by my pains, wishing vnto thee, that arte the patient Reader, as to my self the Wri∣ter and thy very Friend.
George Turberuile.