Æsop's glowworm hath troubled our English apes: who, striving to warm themselves with the flame of the philosopher's stone, have spent all their wealth, in buying bellows to blow this false fire.
Gentlemen! I fear I have too much presumed on your idle leisure; and been too bold, to stand talking all this while in another man's door: but now I will leave you to survey the pleasures of Paphos, and offer your smiles on the altars of VENUS.
Yours, in all desire to please,
THOMAS NASHE.
[The foregoing Introductory matter between pages 495 and 502 occurs only in NEWMAN'S First Quarto of 1591. The text henceforward to page 5715, is that of the Arcadia impression of 1598. From page 580 to page 600, the text is that of NEWMAN'S First Quarto; where only these additional poems are found.]
