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A2 [xylographic]
                            THE
                           BLACKE
                           BOOKE
                           LONDON
                Printed by T.C. for Jeffrey
                         Chorlton.
                            1604


                            A2v


                             A3

                 The Epistle to the Reader.
                             or
             The true Character of this Booke.

     To all those that are truly  Vertuous,  and  can  touch
Pitch   and   yet   never   defile  themselves:   reade  the
mischievous lives and pernicious practises of Villaines, and
yet  be  never the worse at the end of the Booke, but rather
confirmde  the  more  in  their  honest  Estates,  and   the
uprightnes  of  their Vertues:  To such I dedicate my selfe,
the wholesome intent of my labours,


                            A3v

the modestie of  my  Phrases,  that  even  blush  when  they
discover  Vices,  and . . .