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