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To the Reader.
GEntlemen, there are so ma∣ny idle Pamphlets vnder the abused name of Poe∣trie, abroad in the world, that matter of good worth, either morall, or diuine, if it bee handled in verse, it is almost as ill as vertue; it will not sell almost for any thing: yet amōg a number, of, no matter for thē, I doubt not but there are some wil giue Reason his right, and Vertue her due; to such onely I com∣mend this little tract of morall discipline: which though it be handled in single verse, yet if it please you to peruse it, I hope you will not vtterly disdaine it: such as it is, I leaue it to your discreete censures, and kinde corrections; in which, as you shall shewe the best conditions of dispositi∣ons, so shall you giue mee cause with much tha•• ••lnesse, to present you hereafter with some better substance: But least I promise more then I can performe, I pray you take this in as good part, as if it had bin a matter of more worth: