The first part of the eight liberall science: Entituled, Ars adulandi,
the art of Flattery, with the confutation thereof, both very pleasant
and profitable, deuised and compiled by Vlpian Fulwell.
His diebus non peractis,
Nulla fides est in pactis.
Videto.
Mel in ore, verba lactis
Fel in corde fraus in factis
Caveto.
Who reads a booke rashly,
at randome doth runne,
He goes on his arant,
yet leaues it vndone.
_Imprinted at London, by William Hoskins, and are to be solde at his
shop ioyning to the midle Temple gate, within Temple Barre._ 1576.
=B. L.= 4^o. (7 × 5-1/8). S. 6. 2.
Collation: ¶^4A^2B-M^4N^2, folios numbered. 'A dialogue betwene the
Author and his Muse, as touching the dedication of this booke',
giving in anagram the name 'Mildred Burgley'. Epistle dedicatory to
Lady Burleigh (wife of the Lord Treasurer), signed. Address to the
reader. The printer to the reader, in verse. 'A description of the
seuen liberall sciences, into whose company the eight hath intruded
her selfe' in verse. Text in eight dialogues. This is the first
edition and is supposed to be unique. Another edition, 1579, is in
the Bodleian, and a third (1580?) in the British Museum.
Sinker 539.