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jugurth_n syphax_n famous_a and_o renown_a prince_n diverse_a in_o jacques_n slay_v as_o that_o beast_n heliogabolus_n who_o rome_n so_o hate_v that_o he_o flee_v unto_o a_o jaques_n and_o there_o be_v kill_v and_o after_o draw_v through_o the_o street_n and_o throw_v unto_o the_o river_n tiber_n gneus_fw-la carbo_n a_o man_n of_o great_a dignity_n carbo_n and_o power_n of_o rome_n be_v command_v that_o he_o shall_v be_v slay_v as_o he_o be_v sit_v on_o his_o stool_n of_o ease_n by_o pompeius_n in_o the_o third_o time_n of_o his_o consulshippe_n in_o rome_n thus_o shameful_a diverse_a die_v and_o thus_o famous_o others_z died_z the_o snare_n of_o death_n the_o hook_n of_o time_n the_o end_n of_o man_n be_v always_o unknowen_a patroclus_n patroclus_z know_v not_o that_o he_o shall_v be_v slay_v of_o hector_n hector_n hector_n never_o think_v he_o shall_v be_v kill_v of_o achilles_n achilles_n achilles_n never_o doubt_v his_o death_n by_o paris_n paris_n paris_n never_o judge_v that_o 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behalf_n of_o his_o country_n which_o valiant_o for_o a_o time_n he_o defend_v perpenna_n perpenna_n likewise_o a_o famous_a roman_a be_v take_v in_o spain_n after_o sertorius_n be_v dead_a by_o the_o soldier_n of_o pompeius_n in_o a_o woody_a place_n full_a of_o grove_n fear_v least_o at_o that_o instant_n he_o shall_v be_v slay_v by_o pompeius_n soldier_n make_v they_o believe_v that_o he_o have_v diverse_a thing_n to_o speak_v unto_o pompeius_n that_o the_o enemy_n have_v in_o hand_n to_o bring_v to_o pass_v against_o pompeius_n rather_o have_v perpenna_n betray_v his_o friend_n and_o his_o fellow_n yea_o and_o all_o his_o country_n unto_o his_o enemy_n pompeius_n then_o that_o he_o shall_v be_v in_o the_o fear_n of_o death_n a_o great_a fear_n of_o death_n we_o read_v in_o that_o book_n of_o
benefit_v my_o country_n to_o pleasure_v my_o friend_n and_o to_o show_v myself_o more_o willing_a than_o able_a in_o perform_v the_o same_o and_o though_o i_o in_o my_o rashness_n presume_v to_o write_v of_o the_o life_n of_o prince_n yet_o i_o trust_v in_o gather_v the_o fragment_n &_o break_a sentence_n as_o a_o beginning_n unto_o other_o that_o be_v better_o store_v it_o will_v be_v of_o the_o wise_a and_o learned_a consider_v though_o of_o other_o defame_v and_o taunt_v for_o there_o be_v no_o book_n say_v plini_n so_o simple_a but_o it_o profit_v some_o body_n for_o in_o book_n say_v chilo_n the_o philosopher_n be_v the_o fame_n of_o worthy_a man_n eternize_v and_o the_o verity_n of_o thing_n etere_fw-la unknown_n wuritten_v which_o two_o thing_n neither_o time_n can_v consume_v nor_o fortune_n destroy_v and_o for_o this_o cause_n be_v the_o bone_n of_o homer_n seek_v and_o contend_v for_o of_o seven_o city_n in_o greece_n to_o be_v bury_v and_o keep_v as_o a_o monument_n of_o 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general_a in_o their_o war_n six_o several_a time_n he_o i_o say_v be_v in_o no_o such_o danger_n in_o his_o war_n as_o he_o be_v resist_v for_o his_o rule_n and_o law_n in_o tarentum_n plato_n be_v not_o in_o such_o peril_n at_o the_o besiege_n of_o tanagra_n and_o corinth_n among_o all_o his_o enemy_n as_o he_o be_v envy_v in_o greece_n by_o zenophon_n and_o aristotle_n his_o own_o scholar_n by_o his_o philosophy_n neither_o be_v socrates_n in_o such_o hazard_n of_o life_n be_v in_o arm_n in_o delphos_n as_o he_o be_v in_o athens_n by_o writing_n of_o book_n put_v to_o death_n by_o the_o greek_n zeno_n the_o poor_a philosopher_n can_v resist_v the_o violence_n of_o the_o great_a king_n antigonus_n &_o demosthenes_n can_v withstand_v the_o force_n of_o philip_n and_o yet_o neither_o of_o they_o can_v avoid_v the_o snare_n of_o those_o that_o defame_v their_o labour_n envy_v their_o diligence_n in_o writing_n and_o make_n of_o book_n simple_n man_n must_v not_o therefore_o be_v discomfit_v to_o write_v because_o the_o wise_a and_o learned_a be_v herein_o evil_o speak_v for_o the_o gimnosophiste_n in_o india_n the_o prophet_n in_o egypt_n the_o sage_n in_o persia_n the_o ephori_fw-la in_o lacedemonia_fw-la the_o chaldean_n in_o babylon_n and_o the_o philosopher_n in_o greece_n be_v now_o more_o famous_a and_o renowned_a be_v dead_a than_o they_o be_v a_o live_v be_v envy_v and_o slander_v their_o write_n and_o book_n more_o read_v now_o than_o allow_v or_o know_v then_o they_o rtravell_v now_o be_v commend_v though_o their_o life_n then_o be_v despise_v and_o therefore_o i_o wish_v all_o learned_a clerk_n be_v as_o willing_a to_o write_v as_o the_o most_o part_n of_o ignorant_a be_v studious_a and_o careful_a to_o find_v fault_n wherefore_o crave_v the_o good_a will_n of_o the_o learned_a reader_n as_o a_o bowlster_n and_o defence_n to_o my_o simple_a travel_n i_o end_v wish_v that_o both_o the_o printer_n fault_n and_o i_o may_v less_o move_v occasion_n of_o offence_n ¶_o christoforus_n carlilus_n in_o flodum_n gestiunt_fw-la musae_fw-la charites_n triumphant_a gestit_fw-la insignis_fw-la lituis_fw-la apollo_n pallas_n ac_fw-la orpheus_n monumenta_fw-la flode_n cernere_fw-la tanta_fw-la ipse_fw-la ne_fw-la ditem_fw-la videar_fw-la bear_v aureis_fw-la nummis_fw-la calabrosue_n pomis_fw-la well_fw-mi redundantem_fw-la bromeum_fw-la racemis_fw-la dicere_fw-la cesso_fw-la est_fw-la opus_fw-la dignum_fw-la solido_fw-la cupresso_fw-la et_fw-la cedro_fw-la suavi_fw-la simul_fw-la atque_fw-la laud_fw-la maxima_fw-la flodi_fw-la celebrate_v famam_fw-la anglica_n pubes_fw-la si_fw-mi legis_fw-la librum_fw-la furiosa_fw-la philtra_fw-la non_fw-la tâ—bi_fw-la possunt_fw-la nâ—camara_fw-la circe_n vasa_n non_fw-fr atrox_n rabbis_n megerae_fw-la ulla_fw-la nocere_fw-la ed._n grant_v in_o lod._n flo._n qvae_fw-la a_o tûere_fw-la difuruis_fw-la immersa_fw-la tenebris_fw-la aeduntur_fw-la patrijs_fw-la condecorata_fw-la sonis_fw-la quae_fw-la prius_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d fuerint_fw-la bene_fw-la cognita_fw-la paucis_fw-la nunc_fw-la venient_fw-la cunctis_fw-la percipienda_fw-la viris_fw-la postera_fw-la floyde_n tuam_fw-la nascentia_fw-la secula_fw-la laudem_fw-la cantabunt_fw-la praesens_fw-la nomen_fw-la in_o astra_fw-la feret_fw-la quicquid_fw-la est_fw-la in_o mellis_fw-la quicquid_fw-la liberiste_fw-fr lepôris_fw-la continet_fw-la omne_fw-la tuum_fw-la laus_fw-la tribuenda_fw-la tibi_fw-la livide_v mendaces_fw-la compescito_fw-la zoile_n voces_fw-la tela_fw-la licet_fw-la vibres_fw-la non_fw-la violabis_fw-la opus_fw-la inclita_n mordaci_fw-la non_fw-la laedes_fw-la facta_fw-la libello_fw-la florescit_fw-la floydus_fw-la docta_fw-la perora_fw-la virum_fw-la ¶_o in_o librumde_n principum_fw-la periginatione_fw-la johannis_n coci_n scholae_fw-la paulinae_fw-la magistri_fw-la hendecastichon_n cum_fw-la versu_fw-la quodum_fw-la homerico_n ad_fw-la lectorem_fw-la stato_fw-it domi_fw-la nullis_fw-la terre_fw-fr iactatus_fw-la in_o oris_fw-la quem_fw-la patrium_fw-la subijt_fw-la noscendi_fw-la sola_fw-la libido_fw-la sin_n mores_fw-la hominum_fw-la varios_fw-la tibi_fw-la nosse_fw-la voluptas_fw-la ingenijque_fw-la vagas_fw-la ediscere_fw-la nobilis_fw-la art_n non_fw-la perigrinanti_fw-la deerunt_fw-la monimenta_fw-la laboris_fw-la que_fw-la memtemque_fw-la manumque_fw-la parent_n ad_fw-la talia_fw-la promptas_fw-la quod_fw-la libre_fw-la hic_fw-la regum_fw-la referens_fw-la quae_fw-la facta_fw-la priorum_fw-la tuta_fw-la domi_fw-la cupido_fw-la praestabit_fw-la vota_fw-la manendi_fw-la hinc_fw-la licet_fw-la ingenij_fw-la praesignes_fw-la discere_fw-la cultus_fw-la quos_fw-la aditu_fw-la regum_fw-la provisa_fw-la pericula_fw-la monstrent_fw-la nam_fw-la libre_fw-la hic_fw-la peragrans_fw-la tibi_fw-la quae_fw-la viscenda_fw-la fuissent_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d ¶_o in_o laudem_fw-la lodovici_fw-la flodi_fw-la thomas_n dranta_n archdiachonis_fw-la lewicensis_fw-la principibus_fw-la placuisse_fw-la viris_fw-la non_fw-la ultima_fw-la laus_fw-la est_fw-la sic_fw-la ais_fw-la &_o summis_fw-la placuisti_fw-la levis_fw-la horati_fw-la principibus_fw-la placuisse_fw-la viris_fw-la si_fw-la tam_fw-la bona_fw-la laus_fw-la sit_fw-la principibus_fw-la fuisse_fw-la viris_fw-la precepta_fw-la quid_fw-la hoc_fw-la est_fw-la atque_fw-la ipsos_fw-la mutos_fw-la ipsos_fw-la formare_fw-la loquentes_fw-la consilium_fw-la totis_fw-la sanumque_fw-la adscribere_fw-la vitis_fw-la hoc_fw-la tu_fw-la flode_n facis_fw-la quedam_fw-la tua_fw-la dogmata_fw-la vidi_fw-la cetera_fw-la cum_fw-la visis_fw-la si_fw-la quadrant_a congrua_fw-la membra_fw-la â–ª_o quod_fw-la facile_fw-la credo_fw-la quid_fw-la tmultis_fw-la te_fw-la tibi_fw-la tollam_fw-la es_fw-la bone_fw-la ingenioque_fw-la &_o bis_fw-la bone_fw-la argumento_fw-la ¶_o thomas_n churchyard_n gent._n of_o lodo._n fl._n if_o learning_n have_v no_o laud_n man_n like_n will_v decay_v away_o and_o few_o will_v write_v or_o knowledge_n 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