Such follie is it not to regard aforehande the inclination and qualitie of him to whome wee dedicate oure bookes.

Wherefore ye Sisters, which the glorie bee 25 Of the Pierian streames, fayre Naiades, Go too, and dauncing all in companie, Adorne that god: and thou holie Pales, To whome the honest care of husbandrie Returneth by continuall successe, 30 Have care for to pursue his footing light Throgh the wide woods and groves with green leaves dight.

The which I dedicate unto your La. as whome it most speciallie concerneth, and to whome I acknowledge my selfe bounden by manie singular favours and great graces.

"What nowe is of th'Assyrian Lyonesse, Of whome no footing now on earth appeares?

Alex. Thinke, sir, to whome the Iniury was don,go toyour Lady Mother, a vertuous lady, I say and I sayt agen, a very vertuous lady.

Accutus, you have deserved much of our love, but might we not breake the law of sport so farre as to know to whome our thankes is due, by seeing them unmaskt and the reason of their habits? Acut.

"How manie great ones may remembred be, Which in their daies most famouslie did florish, Of whome no word we heare, nor signe now see, 360 But as things wipt out with a sponge to perishe, Because they living cared not to cherishe No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names for ever memorize!