ROBERT THORNE'S BOOK ad. 



1527. 

 the declaration of this Carde to your Lordship, if the 

 sayd Carde had bene very well made after the rules of 

 Cosmographie. For your Lordship would soone under- 

 stand it better then I, or any other that could have made 

 it : and so it should appeare that I shewed Delphinum 

 natare. But for that I have made it after my rude 

 maner, it is necessary that 1 be the declarer or gloser of 

 mine own worke, or els your Lordship should have had 

 much labour to understand it, which now with it also 

 cannot be excused, it is so grossely done. But I knew 

 you looked for no curious things of mee, and therefore I 

 trust your Lordship will accept this, and hold me for ex- 

 cused. In other mens letters that they write they crave 

 pardon that at this present they write no larger : but I 

 must finish, asking pardon that at this present I write so 

 largely. Jesus preserve your Lordship with augmentation 

 of dignities. 



Your servant Robert 



Thorne, 1527. 



Epitaphium M. Roberti Thorni, sepulti in 

 Ecclesia Templariorum Londini. 



Obertus jacet hie Thorne, quern Bristolia quondam 



Praetoris meritd legit ad officium. 

 Huic etenim semper magnas Respublica curse, 

 Charior & cunctis patria divitiis. 

 Ferre inopi auxilium, tristes componere lites, 



Dulce huic consilio quosque juvare fuit. [I. 221.] 



Qui pius exaudis miserorum voto precesque, 

 Christe huic cceli des regione locum. 



[A briefe 

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