ABSTRACT
Hauing no other gift right noble dame to testifie my mynde this booke I send the au.tour when he tiu' d did beare your name & for to honour ladies this be penned here may you reade in sugred verse set out the praises of Belphebe worthie Quene & faery landes adventures all about with other exploites worthie to be seene here Georges holines may vs direct to conquer all the monstrous shapes of sin & Guions temperance make vs suspect the sugred baites of pleasures wanton ginnes
Deign it to reade & reape such fruites it beares I still will wishe you long & happie years
