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love_n	affection_n	desire_v	love_v	2,618	5	5.8704	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10530	The grounde of artes teaching the perfect vvorke and practise of arithmetike, both in whole nu[m]bers and fractions, after a more easie ane exact sort, than hitherto hath bene set forth. Made by M. Robert Recorde, D. in Physick, and afterwards augmented by M. Iohn Dee. And now lately diligently corrected, [and] beautified with some new rules and necessarie additions: and further endowed with a thirde part, of rules of practize, abridged into a briefer methode than hitherto hath bene published: with diverse such necessary rules, as are incident to the trade of merchandize. Whereunto are also added diuers tables [and] instructions ... By Iohn Mellis of Southwark, scholemaster.; Ground of artes	Record, Robert, 1510?-1558.; Dee, John, 1527-1608.; Mellis, John, fl. 1588.	1582 (1582)	STC 20802; ESTC S102132	245,945	706

¶ The Grounde of Artes teaching the perfecte vvorke and practise of Arithmetike both in whole nūbers and fractions after a more easie and exact sort than hitherto hath bene set forth Made by M. ROBERT RECORDE D. in Physick and afterwards augmented by M. IOHN d ee And now lately diligently corrected beautified with some newe Rules and necessarie Additions And further endowed with a thirde part of Rules of Practize abridged into a briefer methode than hitherto hath bene published with diuerse such necessary Rules as are incident to the trade of Merchandize Whervnto are also added diuers Tables instructions that will bring great profite and delight vnto Merchants Gentlemen and others as by the contents of this treatise shal appeare By Iohn Mellis of Southwark Scholemaster CERVA CHARISSIMA ET GRATISSIMVS PRO 〈◊〉 Imprinted by I. Harison and H. Bynneman ANNO DOM. 1582. To the Reader THat which my friend hath well begon For verie loue to common weale Of good will hath bene ouer runne directing ech part euerie deale And bewtified for thy behoofe With breifer wayes for practise lore As by the triall and the proofe Was neuer yet in print before Of numbers vse the endlesse might No wit nor language can expresse Apply and trie both day and night And then this truth thou wilt confesse The Bookes Verdicte To please or displease sure I am But not of one sort to euerie man To please the best sort would I faine The froward displease shal I certaine Yet wish I wil though not with hope All eares and mouthes to please or stoppe To the Right worshipfull M. ROBERT FORTH Doctor of Law and one of the Maisters of the Queenes Maiesties high Court of Chauncerie BIAS the wise Philosopher of Greece when his Country was spoyled and the people caried their goods away being demaunded why he did not the like answered that he caried all that he had with him meaning his vertue and learning So I my Right worshipful singular good Master hauing nothing of value in substance to bestow doe here present you with such treasure as the Lord hath vouchsafed vpon me which according to Bias opinion and mine owne likewise is the greatest Iewell I haue not doubting but you wil accept the giuers mind more than the gift which I confesse is small But being throughly acquainted with the great fauor your Worship bereth to such as delight in any good exercise it hath imboldned me to put forth this simple Addition vnder your Worships defence The entyre loue exercise of this excellēt Arte with drawing of proportions Mappes Cardes Buildings Plattes c. were the only studies whereunto I euermore haue bene enclined Touching Drawing it was onely Dei beneficio naturally giuen me from my youth without instruction of any man more than Loue thereof delectation desire and practise In this Art also hauing great delight I had no other instruction at my first beginning but onely this good Authors Booke but afterwards I greatly encreased the same during the time I serued your Worship in Cambridge in going to the Arithmeticke Lecture at the common Schoole And more furthered since the time that I left your Worships seruice which is about 18. yeares past by continuall exercise therein the mother and nurse of Science during which time my onely vocation hath bene thinking it a meete exercise for a common welth in training vp of youth to write and draw with teaching of them the infallable principles and briefe practises of this worthie Science hauing I praise God for it brought vp a number to become faithfull and seruiceable to their masters in great affaires and many of them good members of a common wealth which is no small comfort to me in Christ Amongst which number a countriman of mine hath oftentimes bene verie inportunate with me to do a deede of Charitie vpon the ground of Arts vz. to peruse and amende it of the imperfections and faultes that haue crept into it through negligence of often printing Which ernest request of his bred two strifes in me The one was I was loth to do it knowing my selfe inferior to a great number that might better do it than I. And yet considering it is a Booke hath done many a thousand good which when a young beginner commeth to a confused or mistaken figure it bringeth him into a wonderful discoragement and maze which thing considered for meere loue to a common wealth and to the Booke being my first Author I willingly graunted to do my goodwill And passing vnder the file of correction I heere and there encreast it with such necessarie Additions as I knewe might encorage a yong learner and more woulde haue done but for feare the Booke would rise too thicke or grow too dere And being thus entered into the vaine thereof and knowing that this Author was the onely light and the chiefest Lodestone vnto the vulgar sort of English men in this worthy science that euer writ in our naturall tong I haue according to my simple knowledge yelded againe some part of my receiued talent with aduantage and endowed him to the further encrease of his memorie with Rules of breuitie and practize abridged into a briefer method than hitherto hath bene published in our English tongue with other right necessarie Additions Rules and Tables whiche I truste will doe my countrie good and be right commodious to all sorts of men all which I commit to the fauorable censure of your worship and al such as loue knowledge desiring their fauorable correction herein if ought be amisse The which with greater affection than I am able to vtter I Dedicate to your Worship as a meete Patrone both for lerning godlines and loue of the same which comming from your worship into the hands of many shall I doubt not do many good as heretofore it hath alreadie done So shall you as the best benefactor of these labors be partaker of all their prayers that shall reape profite or knowledge by this worthy Art in Commendation whereof if I should write I should rather blemish thā adorne it For the Authors Epistle vnto that famous Prince of worthy memorie K. Edward the sixt and his Preface to the Reader are sufficient Thus crauing fauourable acceptation of this my homely and dutifull present I humblie leaue you to the conduction of the Almightie whom I beseech long to preserue you in continuall health with dayly encrease of worship to the glorie of his name and to the ioy of all such as loue you At my house in Southwarke this 12. of Iune Your Worships most bounden to command IOHN MELLIS TO THE MOSTE mightie Prince Edwarde the sixt by the grace of God King of Englande Fraunce and Irelande c. THe excellencie of mans nature being such as it is by Gods diuine fauoure most mightie Prince not onely created in highnesse of degree farre aboue all other corporall things but by perfection of reason and search of wit much approching toward the image