hands, if I can but get thee to trauell through my nose. All the foh's in the fairest Ladies mouth, that euer kist Lord, shall not fright me from thy browne presence: for thou art humble, and from the Courts of Princes hast vouchsafed to be acquainted with penny galleries, and (like a good-fellow) to be drunke for company, with Water-men, Carmen, and Colliers; whereas before, and so still, Knights and wise Gentlemen were, & are thy companions. Last of all, thou Lady of Clownes and Carters, Schoolmistres of fooles and wiseacres, thou homely (but harmelesse) _Rusticity_, Oh breath thy dull and dunsticall spirit into our ganders quill; crowne me thy Poet, not with a garland of Bayes (Oh no! the number of those that steale _lawret_ is too monstrous already) but swaddle thou my browes with those unhansome boughes, which, (like _Autums_ rotten haire), hang dangling ouer thy dusty eye-lids. Helpe me (thou midwife of vnmannerlinesse) to be deliuered of this _Embryon_ that lies tumbling in my braine: direct me in this hard and dangerous voyage, that being safely arriued on the desired shore, I may build up Altars to thy _Vnmatcheable Rudeness_; the excellency whereof I know will be so great, that _Grout-nowles_ and _Moames_ will in swarmes fly buzzing about thee. So _Herculean_ a labour is this, that I vndertake, that I am enforced to ball out for all your succours, to the intent I may aptly furnish this feast of _Fooles_, vnto which I solemnely inuite all the world; for at it shall sit not only those whom _Fortune_ fauours, but euen those whose wits are naturally their owne. Yet because your artificiall fooles beare away the bell, all our best workmanship (at this time) shall be spent to fashion such a Creature. CHAPTER I The old world, & the new weighed together: the Tailors of those times, and these compared: the apparell, and dyet of our first fathers.