The decameron containing an hundred pleasant nouels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seauen honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen.
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- Title
- The decameron containing an hundred pleasant nouels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seauen honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen.
- Author
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Isaac Iaggard,
- 1620.
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"The decameron containing an hundred pleasant nouels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seauen honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16248.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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To the Reader.
BOokes (Courteous Reader) may rightly be compared to Gardens; wherein, let the painfull Gardiner expresse neuer so much care and diligent endeauour; yet among the very fairest, sweetest, and fre∣shest Flowers, as also Plants of most precious Vertue; ill sauouring and stinking Weeds, fit for no vse but the fire or mucke-hill, will spring and sprout vp. So fareth it with Bookes of the very best quality, let the Author bee neuer so indul∣gent, and the Printer vigilant: yet both may misse their ayme, by the escape of Errors and Mistakes, ei∣ther in sense or matter, the one fault ensuing by a rag∣ged Written Copy; and the other thorough want of wary Correction. If then the best Bookes cannot be free from this common infirmity; blame not this then, of farre lighter argument, wherein thy courte∣sie may helpe vs both: His blame, in acknowledging his more sufficiency, then to write so grosse and ab∣surdly: And mine, in pardoning vnwilling Errours committed, which thy iudgement finding, thy pen can as easily correct.
Farewell.