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ure that they which meaure the Greatnee of Goddes workes accordinge to the capacity of their Rude, and imple vndertandinge, wyll not lightly adhibite credite vnto thys Hitory, o wel for the variety of traunge Accidents which be therein decribed, as for the nouelty of o rare, and perfect amity. But they that haue read Plinie, Valerius Maximus, Plutarche, and diuers other Writers, do finde, that in olde time a great number of Men and Women haue died, ome of exceiue ioy, ome of ouermutch orrow, and ome of other paions: and amongs the ame, Loue is not the leat, whych when it eazeth vppon any kynde and gentle ubiect, and findeth no reitaunce to erue for a rampart to tay the violence of his coure, by little and little vndermineth, melteth and conumeth the vertues of naturall powers in utch wye as the pyrite yealdinge to the burden, abandoneth the place of lyfe: which is verified by the pitifull, and infortunate death of two Louers that urrendered their lat Breath in one Toumbe at Verona a Citty of Italy, wherein repoe yet to thys day (with great maruell) the Bones, and remnauntes of their late louing bodies: an hytory no lee wonderfull than true. If then perticular affection which of good right euery man ought to beare to the place where he was borne, doe not deceyue thoe that trauayle, I thincke they will confee wyth me, that few Citties in Italy, can urpae the ayd Citty of Verona, awell for the Nauigable riuer called Adia, which paeth almot through the midt of the ame, and thereby a great trafique into Almayne, as alo for the propect towards the Fertile Mountaynes, and pleaant valeys whych do enuiron the ame, with a great number of very clere and lyuely fountaynes, that erue for the eae and commodity of the place. Omittinge (biides many other ingularities) foure Bridges, and an