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will) hauing many many fancies begotten in it, if it had not been in ſome way deliuered, would haue growne a monſter, and more ſory might I be that they came in, then that they gat out. But this chiefe ſafety, ſhall be the not walking abroad; and his chiefe protection, the bearing the liuerie of your name; which (if much much good will do not deceiue me) is worthy to be a ſanctuary for a greater offender. This ſay I, becauſe I know the vertue ſo, and this ſay I, becauſe it may be euer ſo, or to ſay better, becauſe it will be euer ſo. Reade it then at your idle times, and the follies your good iudgement will finde in it, blame not, but laugh at. And ſo, looking for no better ſtuffe, then, as in a Haberdaſhers ſhop, glaſſes, for eathers, you will continue to loue the writer, who doth exceedingly loue you, and moſte moſte heartilie praies you may long liue, to be a principall ornament to the familiy of the Sidneis.