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...to them, that shall take such trauayle in hand. But to leaue with these, and declare the cause of my purpose. As I chaunced to reade the Mirour for Magistrates,...and full of fitte instructions for preseruation of rehc estate: taking in hand the chronicles and minding to conferre the times, meethoughte the liues...

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...edition prepared in 1587. He humbly acknowledges his book to be entirely imitative of the original MfM, 'a worke by all men wonderfully commended, and full of fitte instructions for presentation of each estate', to be followed with 'the like admonition, meter and phrase.' The metre...