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O conceale the graces inpired by God, or the giftes ingraed by nature, or the vertues atchiued vnto ourelues by indutrie, in all ages and of all wie men was accounted vnduetifulne, vnkindnee & impietie vnto that common wealth, in the which, and vnto the which we are both bred and borne: but to upree the worthie works of any author, may iutly be iudged not only iniurie to the peron, but euen enuie at the whole world. Wherefore chauncing vpon this hort dicoure compiled by the honorable knight ir Thomas Smyth, and conidering that the ame could not but be a great light vnto the ignorant, & no lee delight vnto the learned in the lawes and policie of undrie regiments: I thought it part of my dutie, awel for reuiuing of the fame of o notable a man, as for publike imparting of o pythic a treatie, to preent the ame vnto thy indifferent and dicreete iudgement. Wherein although the errors & rahnes of Scribes, appearing in the contrarietie & corruption of cop- Rh