THE
CONCLUSION,
WITH
AN ADUERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
What thou haſt gained for thy better inſtruction, or what conceiued for recreation by reading theſe thirty fiue Nouells, I am no Iudge, although (by deeming) in reading and peruſing, thou mayſt (at thy pleaſure) gather both. But howſoeuer profite, or delight, can ſatiſfy mine apoyntment, wherefore they were preferred into thy hands, contented am I that thou doe vouchſafe them Good leſſons how to ſhun the Darts, and Prickes of inſolency thou findeſt in the ſame. The vertuous noble may fauor the fruits and taſte the licour that ſtilleth from the gums or buds of Vertue. The contrary may ſee the bloſſoms fall, that blome from the ſhrubs of diſloialty and degenerat kinde. Yong Gentlemen, and Ladies do view a plot founded on ſured grounde, and what the foundation is, planted in ſhattring Soyle, with a faſhion of attire to garniſh their inward parts, ſo well as (ſpareleſſe) they imploy vpon the vaniſhing pompe. Euery ſort and ſexe that warfare in the fielde of humayne life, may ſet here the fauourous fruict (to outwarde lyking) that fanſied the ſenſuall taſte of Adam's Wyfe. They ſee alſo what grieſts ſutch fading fruicts produce vnto poſterity: what likewiſe the luſty growth and ſpring of vertue's plant, and what delicates it brauncheth to thoſe that carefully keepe the ſlips thereof, within the Orchard of their mindes. Diuers Tragical ſhewes by the pennes deſcription haue
