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 To the Right Honorable my especiall good Lord the Lord Burghley, high Treasorer of England. Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter, and Maister of hir Maiesties Court of Wards and Liveries.

IF the Poet Horace (Right Honorable) founde fault with the multitude of Pamhletes published in his time, when he saide, Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim; how much more woulde hee have reproved the vain glory of these daies, of the which we may justly say as the learned Petrach writeth of his age.