The most excellent and plesant metaphoricall historie of Pesistratus and Catanea. Set forth this present yeare by Edm. Eluiden Gentleman

To the Reader.

THere is no Soyle so ba∣ren (gentle Reader) but beeing wisely vsed, wyll yeeld some commodity: In like case nothing so vnpollished but may be somwhat a∣dorned. Wherfore, boldly lette mee craue thy patience to accept this my simple indeuour: and it shall be the redy way to incourage a gros con∣ceit to somewhat better fertility. In the meane season take this presente simple gift as for thy recreatiō, mea∣ning wel, and the better if thou con∣ceiue therof vprightlye: in readyng therefore, peruse and perusing, take that thou thinkest for acceptable, and that which thou iudgest weake,

let thy good will ratifye: and so do∣yng thou shalt iustly recompence my trauel, the which though it bee sim∣ple, requyreth rather the iudgement of the gentle, than the prayse of the slaunderous, or sentence o•• the captious. Farewel.