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To the corteous and freendly Readers.
MY promise was, that by Easter Tearme this worke should be published, and accor∣ding to my promise, heere doo I send it: not doubting but you will so fauourably censure ther∣on, as my paynes, and the plea∣sure of the Historie deserueth. If you happen to fynde any mislike in the translation, or that it is not so currant English as fyne eares hunt after: let this serue as a sufficient excuse for mee, that in transla∣ting, men are bound to their Writers words, and such as roue at random, may set downe what they please.
And this I am to intreate on the Printers be∣halfe, and mine owne, whereas in dyuers places there are faultes escaped, as woordes verie much mis∣taken, many left out, and others common: that you will freendly let passe such ouer-sightes, and at the next Impression they shall bee amended; for I beeyng often absent, and the Printer carefull to