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To MY MOFT DEARE Father, When I was in your Houfe and we went abroade together, in the outfkirtes of the Citie, among the Gentoo Wreftlours, you had poynted me how in all Empryzes he gooing forth flang backe alwaies a Word to hym that had infruct hym in his Crafte to the better Sneckynge of a Victorie or at the leafte the auoidance of anie greate Defeate: And prefentlie each man wolde run to his Vftad (which is as we shoulde fay Mafter) and geat fuch as he deferued of A dmonefhment, Reprouf and Council, concernynge the Gripp, the Houlde, Crofs-buttock and Fall, and then lay to afrefhe. In lyke maner I, drawynge back a lytel, from this my Rabble and Encompafment of Labour, have runn afyde to you who were euer my Vftad and Speake as it were in your priuie Eare yet that others may knowe that if I have here done aught of Faire Crafte and Reverentiall it is come from your hande as trewly but by i.
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