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TO THE COVRTE∣ous Reader.
CVrteous Reader it is obserued by Seneca, that in one and the same plotte of ground, the Hound seeketh for a Hare, the Oxe for good grasse, and the Storke for a Snake or a Lizard,a) 1.1 a) 1.2 and my desire was, that in this booke of Dialogues, the seuerall students of the Canon lawe, the Ci∣uill law, and the Common lawe of this Realme, might haue diuerse repast according to their dis∣agreeing appetites,b) 1.3 b) 1.4 & matters suteable to their distinct contemplations, for it seemed straunge vnto me, that these three lawes, should not as the three Graces haue their handes linked together, and their lookes directly fixed the one vpon the other, but like the two faces of Ianus, the one should be turned from the other, & should neuer looke toward, or vpon the other: and weighing with my selfe, that these lawes are the sinewes of a state, the Sciences of gouernment, & the arts of a cōmon weale, I haue seriously & often wished,