<A RANDOLPH><T CONPEDLER1> Generous Gentlemen, Such is my affection to Phoebus and the ninety nine Muses, that for the benefit of this royall Universitie, I have strodled over three of the terrestriall globes with my Geometricall rambling, *videlicet, the Asia of the Dolphin, the Affrique of the Rose, the America of the Mitre, besides the *terra *incognita of many an Alehouse. And all for your sakes, whom I know to be the divine brats of Helicon, the lawfull begotten bastards of the thrice three sisters, the learned filly-foles to Monsier Pegasus, Archhackney to the students of Parnassus: Therefore I charge you by the seaven deadly Sciences, which you more study than the three and foure liberall sinnes, that your ha, ha, hes may be the recompence of my ridiculous endeavours. I have been long in travaile, but if your laughter give my Embryon Jests but safe deliverance, I dare maintaine it in the throat of Europe, Jeronimo rising from his naked bed was not so good a Midwife. But I see . . .