[P]The Auctour as foloweth.
[P]Go lytell treatyse deuoyde of eloquence
Tremblynge for dreade to approche the maieste
Of our souereynge lord surmountynge in excellence
Put under the wynge of his benygnyte
Submyttynge the to his mercyfull pytie.
And beseche hys grace to pardon thy rudnesse
Whych of late was made to eschewe ydlenesse.
[P]Thus endeth the conuersyon of swerers, made and compyled
by Stephen Hawys, groome of the chambre of our souerigne lorde
Kyng Henry the seuenth. Enprynted at London, in Fletestrete,
at the sygne of the Sonne, by Wynken de Worde, Prynter vnto
the moost excellent prynses, my lady the kynges graundame,
the yere of our Lord a MCCCCCIX. the first yere of the
reigne of our souerayne lord kyng Henry the VIII.
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