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Orhipfull Sir, I am bold (by way of dedication) to giue yee this excellent Dialogue of Plato the Phyloopher, for two reaons. The firt, that o inguler a worke, doone by a Heathen man, might as wel florih in our vulgare peech, as of long time it hath doone both in Greeke and Latine.

The econde, that your countenance might haddowe it from reprochefull launders, which common cenures too lightly bolt out againt the bet endeuours. But  cerning