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T. N. TO THE READER.

 
Of wordes and of examples is a ſundrie ſort of ſpeache
One ſelfe ſame thing to mindes of men in ſundrie wiſe they teache.
Wordes teache but thoſe that vnderſtande the language that they heare:
But things, to men of ſundrie ſpeache, examples make appeare.
So larger is the ſpeache of beaſts, though mens more certaine bee:
But yet ſo larger as conceyte is able them to ſee.
Such largeneſſe yet at length to bring to certaine vſe and plane,
God gaue ſuch grace to beaſts, that they ſhould Indian ſpeach attaine.
And then they learnde Italian tongue, and now at length they can,
By help of Northe, ſpeake Engliſh well to euery Engliſh man.
In Engliſh now they teache vs wit. In Engliſh now they ſaye,