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 (2) PREFACE. Whether of the court or country, nobility or mobility, young, or old rich or poor, bond or free ; to thy protection I commit this book, hop- ing you will receive it in love and good-will; for as much as it is of no ſmall antiquity, the original being many years before your great grand- father peeped into the world, and ſo remains to this day, known by the name of Lazincſs. A thing in which ſome young people have ſo ſhrowded themſelves, that in time they have been overgrown with it; ſo that it ha: lately become ſo hard a cruſt, tha they are forced to be well threſhed be fore they can break them of it. Now among many that have been fore troub led with that diſtemper, the moſt not ed was Lawrence Lazy.-The motiv that encouraged me to publiſh the book, was for your mirth and money and my pleaſure and profit, Who am, Your's at command