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The Guls Horn-booke: OR Fashions to please all sorts of Guls.
Pr••aemium.
I Sing (like the Cuckooe in Iune) to bée laught at: if therefore I make a scuruy noise, and that my tunes sound vnmusical∣ly (the Ditty being altogether lame in re∣spect of the bad féete, and vnhansome in re∣gard of the worme-eaten fashion) you that haue authority vnder the broad seale of mouldy custom, to be called the Gentle Au∣dience, set your goodly great hands to my pardon: or else because I scorne to be vpbraided that I professe to instruct others in an Art, whereof I my selfe am ignorant, Doe your worst: chuse whether you will let my notes haue you by the eares or no: hisse or giue plaudities, I care not a nut-shell which of either: you can neither shake our Comick Theater with your stinking breath of hisses, nor raise it wt the thunder claps of your hands: vp it goes in Despetto del fato: ye motley is bought, & a coat with foure elbowes (for any one that will weare it) is put to ma∣king in defiance of the seuen wise maisters: for I haue smelt out of the musty shéetes of an old Almanacke, that (at one time or o∣ther) euen he that iets vpon the neatest and sprucest leather, euen he that talkes all Adage & Apothegme, even he that will not haue a wrinckle in his new Satten suit, though his mind be vglier then his face, and his face so ill fauoredly made, that he lookes at all times as if a tooth-drawer were fumbling about his gommes with