This being so, It will, I trust, seeme in me a matter the more pardonable, to haue aduentured as I did the formost of this purposed labor, regarding that by a reuew of the same it hath now receiued some shape and proportion. Such as it is I humblie recommend as before, vnto your honorable liking. And for my selfe do remaine, alwaies _By your honorable L. to be commanded_, Angel Day. To the learned and courteous _Readers in generall_. Gentlemen, _When I do begin first to speake vnto you in this action, me thinks, you doe espie in me the parts of an ill_ Scholler, _who in all his dooinges, is forced to craue pardon, but hardly findeth the way that may purchase vnto him selfe the benefite of such a pardon._ _In reformation, two notable instances are held the which as I conceiue do craue allowance, though no prerogatiue in wel doing, and these are for a man to finde his defect, and secondly to haue a will to amend it._ _I will assure you, though I be not gratious, I would be loath to seeme gracelesse and this benefite I will haue to gaine your allowance, that I will blush for mine errors, where I fault in abilitie, I will shew you my will: And when in all I cannot cleare me from your censures, yet shall your courteous forbearance be in me no waies misprised._ _I haue to foretime as now still trauelled with the gardener, who first throweth vp his earth on a rude heape, the scattereth it, after smootheth it, next squareth it, & lastly bringeth it into knots and workmanship, before which you know, there are many weeds, loose hearbes, grasses, sticks, and rubbish to be picked vp & thrown out: And then and not before beginneth his worke to drawe towards the perfection._ _As he so I, at the first threw vp this groundwork in a heape, and onely did scatter it: after, and hether vnto I haue endeuored to smooth and to square it, picking out thereof many thinges which lay to too much disordered. It onely now wanteth to be labored on by a more curious workmanship, but because it is my garden plat, & my prouision is too small to perfect on a sodaine so spacious a ground worke, I will temporize with those duties, which either by time may in me be supported or by a greater hability in others may happilie hereafter be performed._