_Now because it is in all omissions the greatest omission not to bee thankefull for courtesies, I will acknowledge that as you haue hitherto benignly delt with me in the suruey of these labours, so haue you bound mee the more vnto you by your fauourable censures. And yet if after this continued trauell vnto this present, you either in mine or in the printers escapes find any thing blame worthy, couer it I pray you as before you haue done with the vaile of your courtesie. The copies before this, haue bene I confesse erroniously many wayes deliuered, and this by the blottings and interlinings had in the former amendements hath peraduenter also his escapes or mistakings: If any be, they are fewe I hope, and therefore the more easie to be tollerated. Onely correct where fault is, and the printer and I shalbe beholding vnto you._ _Hauing thus performed for my selfe what vnto your worthines stoode meete to be considered, giue mee now leaue I pray you, touching the order and course in this |Methode| hereafter obserued, to say somthing to them which therby are to take any benefit or profite. In which case, the learner is circumspectly with himselfe to consider, the seuerall rules in the particular chapters preceeding the orders of those |Epistles|, in such sort as afterwards they are distinguished, & therein see, what to the better ordering and principall direction, of whatsoeuer hee shall take in hand to write, is there (for his better instruction) enioyned. By diligent animaduersion wherof, he shall the better vnderstand the seuerall natures and properties, that in the parts of euery |Epistle|, are ordinarily to be required, besides the vse of them in their seueral places, and what force they beare, being so sorted out, according to their speciall purposes and directions._ _Next, for the better inducement and leading him into a plaine and perfect platforme of this |Methode| following, & to the intent he may as neere as may be, or as his capacitie (at leastwise) may any waies reach vnto, knowe (skilfully, & not by rote) how or in what sort he shall happen to doe either well or ill, I haue first (in a preamble or intermixed discourse, either preceeding or interchangeably passing, before or with the kindes of euery sorte of |Epistles|) declared the properties and vse of those |Epistles|, vpon what parts and places, they and euery of them doo consist, with what vehemencie or lesse application they are to bee inforced or quallified, so that he who seemeth to haue least knowledge at all (be it that he haue perseuerance to conceiue or to distinguish the parts he seeth there laid out before his eyes) may with great facilitie, attaine to whatsoeuer, herein prescribed, or by the circumstance thereof intended to be in any sort deliuered._