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VPON THE BOOKE, and the Author thereof.
POore Guzmans life, the mapp of Vice and Sinne,
Story'ed by Aleman, is as a Voyce
From Heau'en, shewing how thou shouldst make thy choise.
The word, Shunne thou to bee what I haue bin.
Who stands here as a Marke; that thou maist see
Where his ship was drown'd; How the same was split,
More through lacke of Wisedome, then want of Wit.
Which was the cause of all his Misery.
The dainty style of this his pleasing quill
By Guzmans roguish life, aduiseth thee
What an vpright and honest life should be.
How this, doth leade to good; how that, to ill.
How slight so e're this fiction seeme to be,
None, can be fuller, of Morality.