WOrshipfull Sir, I am bold
(by way of dedication)
to
giuegive yee this
excellent
Dialogue of
Plato the
Phylosopher, for two reasons. The
first, that so singuler a worke, doone
by a Heathen man, might as
wel
florish
in our vulgare speech, as of long
time it hath doone both
in Greeke
and Latine.
The seconde, that your
countenaunce
might shaddowe it from
reprochefull
slaunders, which
common
censures too lightly bolt out
against
the best
endeuoursendevours. But
concerning
the speciall matter, to wit, my
presumption,
without first
acquainting
yee heere-with: thus I protect
my selfe.
My familiarity with yee in
your younger yeeres, when
sometimes
wee were Schollers together,
and my present
ioyjoy, to see ye so hap-
pie a succeeder both in your Fathers
vertues, place, and Office:
imboldened
mee to shew a remembrance of
the one, yet
reuerentlyreverently, and
gladnes
of the other as well becommeth me.
If in thys small gift, ye make
acceptance
both of the one and other,
yee shall declare no lesse then each
one well discernes in ye, and
ioyjoy him
that
eueryevery way is at your
cõmaundcommaund.