. The Florentine treaties, andthe fecret humours of Princes : with diuerie other things verie conliderable,chiefly of fuch as be called to confutation of publike affaires & as the end of all Hiftories ought be to mooue men vnto vertue, and dif-courage them from vice,fo do I thinke,there is not any that conteineth moreexamples to that purpofe, then this writer: who leauing alide all partialitie, A iy and The Epiille Dedicatorie. and the cuftome of thofe that ftudie to flatter whom they fauour,and mi/re-port whom they loue not,doth feeme greatly to follow the truth,and
. The Florentine treaties, andthe fecret humours of Princes : with diuerie other things verie conliderable,chiefly of fuch as be called to confutation of publike affaires & as the end of all Hiftories ought be to mooue men vnto vertue, and dif-courage them from vice,fo do I thinke,there is not any that conteineth moreexamples to that purpofe, then this writer: who leauing alide all partialitie, A iy and The Epiille Dedicatorie. and the cuftome of thofe that ftudie to flatter whom they fauour,and mi/re-port whom they loue not,doth feeme greatly to follow the truth,and fettethforth rather the caufes and efTeds of euerie adion, then ouer -much extoll ordifgrace the perfbns of whome the ftorie entreateth. But (as of all otherthings) fo hereof your L. can beft iudge. Wherefore moil: humblyreaccommending to vour good fauour, this poore Prefent,and my faithfull feruice,I take leaue. At theCourt, this eight of Aprill,i y 8 8. Your L. moft humble and a (lured to commaund, Thomas
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