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THE PROLOGUE.

Coyne, of Golde, and Siluer: and woondering at hys great fortune, began to think to lode hymselfe, and to beare it home. But seeing the summes so great that scant twentie men coulde carte it awaye, it greeued him much that hee alone coulde not conuey it, and thus hee sayde to himselfe.

If I leaue it here, it is in daunger to be taken from mee, and to wratch it daylie, it would to much trouble mee: besides, that that I coulde take with me, would doe mee but small pleasure. Well, hap what hap will, I