COnsideringe with my selfe ( right Honorable and my singular good Lorde ) howe in respect of time well imployed , no Iewell can be thought precious or comparable , nor any thinge more vnpleasant to the vertuous minde , then the remembrance of the euill and idle bestowyng therof : I haue thought good as well for the auoidinge of Idelnesse ( Mother of all vice ) as also , for the zeale I beare to this my natiue Countrey , to select these Sentences , varied many waies , out of the Jtalian Authour Intituled in that toungue Specchio de la lingua Latina , and to English them al vnder the name of A Comfortable ayde for Scholars , whiche I haue chiefly done in the fauour of your Lordshippes noble and towarde Sonne , trustinge that by healpe hereof , he may more easely attaine to a further knowledge in that tongue : wherin as your honour is most desirous he should profite , so , ( thanks be to God ) he is now already well entered : and now that I haue finished my labour , supposinge some younge studientes may ( if they will ) reape commoditie therby , and that being published , it may rather doo good , then harme : J haue presumed thus rudely and simply to set foorth the same , determinyng for diuerse considerations to bestowe it ( beyng the first fruites of my trauell ) rather vpon your Honour ( as dutie bindeth me , beynge my good Lorde and Maister ) then vpon any other persone : because I knowe none whome I thought would more fauorably accept my doinge , nor who of dutie might more iustely clayme the same then your Lordship , vnto whome I do now moste humbly dedicate this my trauell , as a token of my true and affectionate seruice , meanynge hereby outwardely to shewe , what the inwarde desire is willinge to doo , if power and habilitie were therunto correspondent . And nowe , for full accomplishment and perfection of this meane woorke , resteth no more behind but your Lordshippes Honorable fauour to protect the same , whiche J most humbly beseche you to receiue into your noble tuition , as well to geue countinance and credite to the same , as also goynge forth in your Lordships name , to be an occasion vtterly to depresse the malignant and sclaunderous tongues of the simple and vnlearned sorte : agaynste whose iniuries neither good will nor labour is able to with stande , but only the maintenance of my cause by your Honorable protection thereof , pleasinge to accept in good parte this poore attempt of mine , whiche doinge your Lordshippe shall hereafter incourage me to bestowe my trauell in matters of greater importaunce , and to acknowledge my self much bound to your Honour , vnto whom I nowe moste humbly submitte my selfe and my doynges , besechynge Almighty God fauourably to defende , and gouerne your Lordship in this life , and after that , mercifully to conduct you to the vnspeakable ioyes of his kingdome . Anno 1568. The .16 . of May .