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THE
BLACKE
BOOKE
LONDON
Printed by T.C. for Jeffrey
Chorlton.
1604
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The Epistle to the Reader.
or
The true Character of this Booke.
To all those that are truly Vertuous, and can touch
Pitch and yet never defile themselves: reade the
mischievous lives and pernicious practises of Villaines, and
yet be never the worse at the end of the Booke, but rather
confirmde the more in their honest Estates, and the
uprightnes of their Vertues: To such I dedicate my selfe,
the wholesome intent of my labours,
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the modestie of my Phrases, that even blush when they
discover Vices, and . . .
