Where Gouernours be good, and rule their charge aright, Without an ebbe there flowes the flood, which vertuous minds delight. And heere I doo turne me from these thinges, vntill by talke with you, I may dilate more at large therof, and returning myselfe vnto my former purpose, I haue not thought it conuenient to write the complaynts of these men, with so obscure a stile as some other haue done, but with so playne an exposition, that he who doth reade them, shall not neede to be an _Oedipus_, for euery playne _Dauus_ shall by reading them, easily vnderstand the authour’s drift. And because _Diligence_ and _Memorie_ bee all the helpers that I haue, therefore I haue ordayned them, as the chief workers of my wyll. _Higgins_ vsed (I know not what) _Morpheus_, the god of dreames, but I dreamt not. The other had _Baldwine_ for their hearer, but I haue diligent _Inquisition_, who can finde out al things, and _Memorie_, who knoweth al thinges, for the arbiters of my matter. Take you therefore, the fruites of these my idle howres, sent vnto you with a good wyll, and according vnto the trust reposed in you, keepe these trifles from the view of all men, and as you promysed, them not raunge out of your priuate study. And thus wishing vnto you honour, and long lyfe, I ende, the 15 daye of Maye, An. 1577. Your Friende to vse. THOMAS BLENER HASSET. [[1166]THE INDUCTION.