¶ The Auctour.
The author’s address to his book.
¶ Go, lyttell quere, and recommende me
To all that this treatyse shall se, here, or rede;
Prayenge them therwith content to be
And to amende it in places, where as is nede:4
Of eloquence, they may perceyue I want the sede,
And rethoryke, in me doth not abounde,
Wherfore I have sowen, such sedes as I found.
Finis.
[Fol. 90b.]
This book was compiled by Master Fitzherbert.
¶ Thus endeth this ryghte profytable boke
of husbandry, compyled sometyme by mayster
Fitz-herbarde, of charytie and good zele
that he bare to the weale of this mooste
noble realme, whiche he dydde not
in his youthe, but after he had
exercysed husbandry, with
greate experyence,
xl. yeres.
¶ Imprinted at London in fletestrete,
in the house of Thomas Ber-
-thelet, nere to the condite
at the sygne of Lu-
-crece. Cum pri-
-uilegio.
