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SINCE my late setting foorth of the Faerie Queene, finding
that it hath found a fauourable passage amongst you; I have sithence
endeuoured by all good meanes (for the better encrease and accomplishment of
your delights,) to get into my handes such smale Poemes of the same Authors;
as I heard were disperst abroad in sundrie hands, and not easie to bee come
by, by himselfe; some of them hauing bene diuerslie imbeziled and purloyned
from him, since his departure ouer Sea. Of which I haue by good meanes
gathered togeather these fewe parcels present, which I haue caused to bee
imprinted al-
togeather, for that they al seeme to containe like matter of
argument in them: being all complaints and meditations of the world's
vanitie, verie graue and profitable. To which effect I vnderstand that he
besides wrote sundrie others, namelie