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To the Reader. 
I do not craue 
mo thankes to haue, 
than giuen to me 
alreadie be, 
but this is all 
to such as shall 
peruse this booke : 
That for my sake, _ 
they gently take, 
where ere they finde 
against their minde, 
when he or she 
shall minded be 
therein to looke. 
And grant me now, 
thou reader thow, 
of termes to vse, 
such choise to chuse, 
as may delight 
the countrie wight, 
and knowledge bring: 
For such doe praise 
the countrie phraise, 
the countrie acts, 
the countrie facts, 
the countrie toies, 
before the ioies 
of anie thing. 
7 Nor looke thou here 
that euerie shere 
of euerie verse 
I thus reherse 
may profit take 
or vantage make 
by lessons such : 
For here we see 
things seuerall bee, 
and there no dike, 
but champion like, 
and sandie soile, 
and claiey toile, 
doe suffer? much. 
8 This? being waid, 
be not afraid 
to buie to proue, 
to reade with loue, 
to followe some, 
and so to come 
by practise true : 
My paine is past, 
thou warning hast, 
th’ experience mine, 
the vantage thine, 
may giue thee choice 
to crie or reioice : 
and thus adue. 
Fints T. Tusser. 
1 differ. 
1573; suffer. 1577. 
EMEhuss “15775 
