•·1·:. .T 0 T ,' H .E HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE H EJ'('R..._"i, PRINCE 0 F GREAT BRIT A I~ E, Sonne and Heire Apparant to our Soveraigne Lord, JAM E s~ 1\jng .th·· of G R EAT 8 & IT A IN E , &c, All glory in either uxwld. Moll {;rocious Prince: lrr.r-;~~;sr.Si. ilf,1s not from any conceit offuch worth in III~~~~,~~~II}PY labop~s_, that they durJllooke fo high. A lower patronage would have ferved an' \lll!i~~ higher work.lc were well ifought 6f mine could be worthy ofpopular eyes; Or if! could wring ought from my felfe not unworthy ofa judiGiousReader. I knmv your Highnes wants neither prefents,nor counfels: prefents from il:rangers,counfels from your Teachers; neither ofthem matchable by my . weakneffe lonely dmy11erein excufech me fi"Om prefumption. For, l thought it injuil:ice to devote the fruit ofmy la-· to any other ha11d befide myMail:ers : whid1 alfo I to be as gracious, as mine is faithfull. Yet (fince eveil' affeetions cannot warrailt too rn:uch vileneffe in gifts · Princes) leit, white my mockil:y difparages my worke, I fhould hazard the acceptatioii ; here {hall yo~1r Grace find ' variety,not without · .I hate a Divine that would but pleale;an.cHvJ·th<Lll,t:huJk it impoffible for a man toprofit,that' pleafeth no~. And if,while my fble fixeth it felfupo·n others,· i --------=----~--~-~~------ru=1y --·- ~:
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