The Muses scorne; the Courtiers laughing-stock; The Countreys Coxecombe; Printers proper new; The Citties Leprosie; the Pandars stew; Vertues disdayne; honesties aduerse rock; Enuies vile champion; slaunders stumblingblock. Graund / Oratour of Cunny-catchers crew; Base broaching tapster of reports vntrue; Our moderne Viper, and our Countryes mock; True Valors Cancer-worme, sweet Learnings rust. Where shall I finde meete colours, and fit wordes, For such a counterfaict, and worthlesse matter? Him, whom thou raylest on at thine owne lust, Sith _Bodine_ and sweet _Sidney_ did not flatter, His Inuectiue thee too much grace affordes. _Parthenophil._ SONET. Haruey, _or the sweet Doctour_. _Sidney_, sweet Cignet, pride of Thamesis; Apollos laurell; Mars-his proud prowesse: _Bodine_, register of Realmes happinesse, Which Italyes, and Fraunces wonder is: _Hatcher_, with silence whom I may not misse: Nor _Lewen_, Rhetoriques richest noblesse: Nor _Wilson_, whose discretion did redresse Our English Barbarisme: adioyne to this Diuinest morall _Spencer_: let these speake By their sweet Letters, which do best vnfould _Harueys_ deserued praise: since my Muse weake Cannot relate somuch as hath bene tould By these _Fornam'd_: then, vaine as it were to bring New feather to his Fames swift-feathered wing. _Parthenophe._ _The Printers Aduertissement to the Gentleman Reader_. CURTEOUS Gentlemen, it seemed good to M. Doctour Haruey, for breuity-sake, and because he liked not ouer-long Preambles, or Postambles, to short discourses, to omit the commendatorie Letters, and Sonnets of M. Thorius, M. Chewt, and diuers other his affectionate frendes of London, and both the Vniuersities. Which neuerthelesse, are reserued to be prefixed, inserted, or annexed, either in his _defensiue Letters_, enlarged with certaine new Epistles of more speciall note; or in his _Discourses of Nashes S. Fame_, already finished, & presently to be published, as these shall like their interteinement: of whose fauorable & plausible Welcome, diuers learned and fine wittes haue presumed the best. Howbeit finally it was thought not amisse, vpon conference with some his aduised acquaintance, to make choice of some two or three of the reasonablest, and temperatest Sonnets (but for variety, & to auoyde tediousnesse in the entrance, rather to be annexed in the end, then prefixed in the beginning of the present Discourses): one of the foresayd M. Thorius, an other of M. Chewt, and the third of a learned French gentleman, Monsieur Fregeuill Gautius, who hath published some weighty Treatises, aswell Politique as Religious, both in Latin and French; and hath acquainted M. Doctour Haruey with certaine most profitable Mathematicall deuises of his own inuention. The residue is not added by me, but annexed by the Autor himselfe: whom I humbly recommende to your curteous Censure,