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Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Note E19 — 5.

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In the edition of 1570 the first stanza of the "Preface to the Buier" reads as follows:

"What lookest thou herein to haue? Trim verses thy fansie to please? Of Surry so famous that craue, Looke nothing but rudenes in these."

The reference in the third line being to Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, author of the Translation of the second and fourth Books of the Æneid of Virgil, and of numerous other poems, who was executed in 1547.

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