Transcribers Note: Original spelling and punctuation have been retained. You will find: v in place of u, y in place of i, y in place of ie, ie in place of y. Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected. Italics are denoted like _this_. Bolded are denoted like =this=. The carat character (^) indicates that the following letter is superscripted (example: y^e). For the purpose of making reading easier (where there are spoken parts), each persons part has been moved to its own line. A modest meane _to Mariage, plea_sauntly_ set foorth by that _famous Clarke Erasmus Roterodamus, and translated into Englishe by N. L._ _Anno_. 1568. ¶ _Imprinted at Lon_don by Henrie Denham, _dwelling in Pater noster Rowe, at the signe of the Starre_. ¶ To the right worship_full Maister Francis Rogers_ Esquire, one of the Gentlemen pen_sioners vnto the Queenes Maiestie, Nicholas Leigh wisheth long & quiet lyfe, with much increase of virtue and worship_. _When I remember (gentle Maister Rogers) the auncient acquaintance and friendship, and the daylie and accustomed metings, recourse and familiaritie that (amōg the rest) did happen and passe betwene vs in times past, in those our yong and tender yeares, and in those famous places of studie, vnto the which we were by oure friendes appointed and then sent for learning sake. And when moreouer, I doe remember, waye, and cōsider therin on the one side, that state and condition of life, in the which I was then, with that, which for my part on the other side, I doe now find and haue long since felt and tasted of, I cannot but recken and thinke that time most happily passed which I bestowed in the trauaile and study of good letters. For besides the inestimable fruit, & the incomparable pleasure & delectation, that the Muses doe bring vnto the studious, beside the sweete rest of minde, voyde of all worldly cares and troubles, the faire & pleasaunt walkes, which we there (with a number of vertuous, and well disposed, and a sort of learned, ciuill, friendly and faithfull companions) enioyed, togither with the wholesome and cleane diet, not infected with outragious or any surfetings (a vice else where to much vsed) what honest and godly exercises had we then there to the furtherance and increase of vertue, & to the abandoning of vice? insomuch that in a maner it hath fared with me euer since my departing thẽce, as with one that being expelled and exuled from a second Paradise, replenished and adorned with all kinde of flagrant & of most wholesome and sweete flowers and delights, is presently fallen as it were into a darke & an yrkesome thicket of bushes and brambles of the cares and troubles of this worlde, daylie readie, not onely to molest and perturbe the quiet studious minde, but also so complete with an infinite number of displeasures, dammages, and daungers on euerye side that (verye much