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''Hilt we tudie to be thankful in our particular, for the many fauors we haue receiued from your L. L we are falne vpon the ill fortune, to mingle two the mo diuere things that can bee, feare, and rahnee; rahnee in the interprize, and feare of the ucvee. For, when we valew the places your H. H. utaine, we cannot but know their dignity greater, then to decend to the reading of thee trifles: and, vvhile we name them trifles, we haue depriu'd our elues of the defence of our Dedication. But ince your L.L. haue beene pleas\d to thinke thee trifles ome-thing, heertofore; and haue proequuted both them, and their Authour liuing, vvith much fauour: we hope, that (they out-liuing him, and he not hauing the fate, common with ome, to be exequutor to his owne writings) you will ve the like indulgence toward them, you haue done''