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THE PREFACE. Touching the generall scope intended by the author for the reformation of abuses and ill customes, This we may say, that although very many have taken paines in the same subject, during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, and some before, as the d author of the booke intituled Solus populi, and after him Patrick Finglas, cheife Baron of the Ex chequer here, and afterwardes cheife Justice of the common pleas, yet none came so neere to the best grounds for reformation, a few passages excepted, as Spenser hath done in this. Some notes I have added, although not intending any, untill the fourth part of the Booke was printed.