The Translator to the Reader

FOr so muche as the Author of this booke hath published at diuers times seuerall editions thereof in the Spanishe tongue, and in the later editions hath from time to time verie muche and often corrected, altered, and augmented the same, not onelie in manifolde wordes, and sentences, but also in diuers chapiters, otherwise than in the former editions, that were printed either in Toledo, Salamanca, Lisbone, Andwarpe, or in anie other place before the yeare of our Lord. 1567. I thinke it verie conueniente to giue notice of it to the Reader: and withall that in my Translatiō I doe folowe the edition in the Spanishe tongue printed at Andwarpe by Christopher Plantine, in the yeare of our Lorde. 1572. For I perceaue that the frenche Trāslation differeth in duers places from this best corcted edition of Plantins: and so doe likewise all the Translations that I haue seene in the Italian tongue printed in diuers yeares at Rome, Naples, and Venice, by Michaël Tramezzino, Horatio Saluiani, Iouāni Baptista Guerra, and Gabriel Iolito: vntill that nowe of late all the Authors workes haue bene newlie translated into the Italian tongue, and printed at Venice by Georgio Angelieri, in the yeare of our Lorde. 1581.