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TO THE READER.
SMyrnean Maeonides vsed in his delicate Poems diuers Dialects, as Io∣nic, Aeolic, Attic, and Doric: So haue I (O courteous Reader) in this; and but alasse in this, imitate that renowned Hellenist Homer, in vsing the Scotish and English Dialectes: the one as innated, I can not forget; the other as a stranger, I can not vpon the sodaine acquire. The subtile Merchant placed Aesop in the middle betwixt Cantor and Grammaticus, that by the interposition of that deformed fabulator, the other two might appeare the fayrer. So haue I in middest of my modest Affections, committed to the Presse my vnchast Loue to Lais, that contraries by conttraries, and Ʋertue by Vice, more cleerely may shine. To each (courteous Reader) that will both of this & that mixtture of Ditties and Dialects, courteously censure, I am but end to the fatall end,
A most louing Friend, in all p••ssible imployment. Craige.