Orſhipfull Sir, I am bold (by way of dedication) to giue yee this excellent Dialogue of Plato the Phyloſopher, for two reaſons. The firſt, that ſo ſingular a worke, doone by a Heathen man, might as wel floriſh in our vulgare ſpeech, as of long time it hath doone both in Greeke and Latine.

⁠The ſeconde, that your countenance might ſhaddowe it from reprochefull slaunders, which common cenſures too lightly bolt out againſt the beſt endeuours. But con-