"The Bookes Reqvest 



Reede ouer, then judge, 

 Condemne not before : 

 With iudgment iust reiect, 

 Or els imbrace my lore. 

 Mine Authour was the first 

 And last, as I suppose, 

 That euer did assay 

 These secrets to disclose. 

 If ought be wrought awry, 

 And seems to thee vnsounde. 

 With penne I pray amende. 

 And not with tongue confounde." 



The publisher's prefix to the English version of Janus Dubravius's 

 "A new books of good husbandry." London, 1599. 



The University Phess, Cambridge, Mass.. 



