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1The first edition 1551 second edition 1556
2newly perus’d & corrected by Raphe Robynsyn
3the first one appears by his preface to the
4gentle reader not having been intended
5to have been published, "it never having
6been my mind nor intente that it should
7ever have been imprinted at all as
8who for no such purpose toke upon me
9at the first the translation thereof
10but did it only at the request
11of a friend upon hope that he
12would have kept it secret to
13himself alone, who though
14I knew to be a man in dede
15both very wittie and also skilful
16yet was I certé that in the
17knowledge of the Latin tonge
18he was not so well sene as
19to be hable to judge of the
20fineness or coarseness of my
21translation & to the meannesse

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