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The Epiftle to the Queenc. . 



others (by the great trauell that they haue bellowed in tran- 

 flating him out of his toong wherein he wrote, intodiuers 

 other languages) are made euident and famous : but none 

 before this into Englifti. Which hath made me deiirous f fol- 

 lowing their example ) to make my countrimen partakers of 

 fuch knowledge,as other learned and wife men in other coun- 

 tries haue thought meete to be made knowen in the 



gs of their common 



Touching ray felfe this 



lielhauetopromife, thatin this tranflation I hauevfedmy 

 moft skill and diligence topleafe and plcafureall fucft as de- 

 light in this fo honefl andprofitable a knowIedge.Moft hum- 

 bly crauing a fauorablc acception heereofatyourMaiefties 

 hands, and pardon, if in any point I haue giuen iuft occafion 



of blame,and deferued reprehenfion . 



From my poore houfe at Ly tefcarie within your Maicfties 



Countie of Somerfet,the iirft day of lanuaricj M.D Xxxviij, 



Tom OlIahBks moH humhle 



and faithfullfttbieB, 



Henrie Liti 



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