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AN ADUERTISEMENT
To the Reader.
After theſe tragicall Nouelles and dolorous Hiſtories of Bandello, I haue thoughte good for thy recreacion, to refreſh thy mind with ſome pleaſaunt deuiſes and diſportes: leaſt thy ſpirites, and ſences ſhould be apalled and aſtonned with the ſondrie kindes of cruelties remembred in the vij. of the former nouelles. Which be ſo ſtraunge and terrible as they be able to affright the ſtouteſt. And yet conſidering that they be very good leſſons for auoyding like inconueniences, and apt examples for continuacion of good and honeſt life, they are the better to be borne with, and may with leſſe aſtonniſhment be read and marked. They that follow, be mitigated and ſweetened with pleaſure, not altogether ſo ſower as the former be. Prayinge thee moſte hartely, paciently to beare with thoſe that ſhall occure, either in theſe that folow, or in the other that are paſt before.
END OF VOL I.
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