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To the right vertuous, excellent, and most High and Noble Prince HENRIE, by the grace of God Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewell, Earle of Chester, and heire ap∣parant to the Realmes of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c.
THE late gracious acceptance, most worthy yong Prince (with so prompt & welwilling hand, so amiable and plea∣sant a countenance, and so kinde and courteous words,) of those mine hastie and bold attempted labours, in transla∣ting into Latin and English verse the seuerall Precepts and Instructions of our dread Soueraigne your Fathers Maiesties ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ, for your owne sake, and vnto your owne selfe by him so Christianly, fatherly, painfully and learnedly first penned: that Princes Looking-glasse, or Princes direction, (for that title or inscription I then thought best befitting such an argument) so benignly accep∣ted of, hath animated and encouraged me once againe, to pub∣lish vnder your Graces Patrocinie, an other Looking-glasse, to wit, this present Loyall Subiects Looking-glasse, or a good subiects Direction, a treatise I suppose in these our last dayes and perillous times, very requisite and necessarie for all Christian subiects, like as was the other for a Christian Prince. A fault I confesse is by me here committed, by this my second so bold an enterprise, but yet Priùs perspecta clementia, & lenitate tua fretus, in good hope you will beare with my wants and imperfec∣tions, and accept and respect mine heart, and plaine simple well