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To the Right Worshipful

Master Benedic Barnam, Esquire, Alderman and Sheriff of this honorable City of London: health and happiness.

An ornate decorative initial 'W' featuring foliage and scrollwork within a square frame.Worshipful Sir, I am bold (by way of dedication) to give you this excellent Dialogue of Plato the Philosopher, for two reasons. The first, that so singular a work, done by a Heathen man, might as well flourish in our vulgar speech common language, as of long time it hath done both in Greek and Latin.

The second, that your countenance support/favor might shadow it from reproachful slanders, which common censures too lightly bolt out against the best endeavors. But concerning