With that sodaynly / I truely awoke Takynge pen and ynke to make this lytell boke ¶ Go lytell treaty se submyte the humbly To euery lady / excusynge thy neclygence Besechynge them / to remembre truely How thou doost purpose to do thy dylygence To make suche bokes by true experyence From daye to daye theyr pastyme to attende Rather to dye / than thau wolde them offende ¶Enprynted by me Wynkyn de Worde. || About the Text Abbreviations are shown as superscripts. The word shown as ye was printed with the e directly above the y: yͤ. Not all browsers can display this form correctly. Abbreviations in t (what, that) were similarly written; note that the second occurrence of þt uses true thorn, not the more common y. The “-us” abbreviation, similar to a small 9, is shown here as us. In verse, abbreviations were used only when a long line had to be shortened to fit the width of the page. Damaged Words were reconstructed based on surviving parts of letters. Some reconstructions are more secure than others. Page A.vi. Page B.i.
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