tor after faire talke,
beganne to discharge his double Cannons, callinge his wyfe
Whore, bitch, and beaste, and vnderstandinge that he was twice
begiled and could not tell by whom, for spite and despayre he
tare of his beard, and the heare of his head, which bruted and
knowen in the Citie, the Iesters and pleasaunt felowes bent
themselues to laugh, and deuise pastime at the poore begiled
Doctour and his wyfe.

FINIS.

The [s]econd Tome
of the Palace of Plea[s]ure,
*conteyning store of goodly Hi[s]tories,*
Tragicall matters, and other Mo-
*rall argument, very re-*
_qui[s]ite for delighte_
*and profit.*

_Cho[s]en and selected out of_
_diuers good and commen-
dable Authors:_

By William Painter, Clerke of the
Ordinance and Armarie.
ANNO.1567.

Imprinted at London, in
Pater Noster Rowe, by Henry
Bynneman, for Nicholas
England.

_To the Right Worshipful Sir George Howard Knight, Maister of the
Quene's Maiestie's Armarye._

Every science hauing his peculier commodity, and conducinge to
the trauayler and dilligent searcher, a due deserued benefyte
(besydes the exercise and shunninge the pestilent monster
Idlenes) discloseth the miraculous effect of the Diuinity, and
the excellency of his Creature: who breathing life into that
sencelesse worke, framed within the mould of humayn Conception,
forceth in him by nature and timely institution such capacitye
of Science, as not onelye by that knowledge hee glorifyeth his
Creator, but also besydes himselfe, helpeth and doth good to
other. For profe whereof the Science of that surpassing and
delightsome pasture of Theologie, is profitable to teache,
argue, reproue, and instruct, that by pacience and consolation,
we may conceiue hope of Eternitye. The knowledge of Philosophie
cureth the Mynde, auoydeth childish care, expelleth feare, and
shunneth fond desyres. O Philosophye, the guide of life,
(exclameth Tullie) the inquisitor of Vertue and expeller of
vice. Rethorike (affirmeth he) causeth vs to learne that we know
not and that we know to teach to other: by the same we exhort,
with that we perswade, with that we comfort the afflicted, by it
we encourage the astonned, and appease the outragious. Musike,
easeth the troubled mynde, lenifyeth sorrowe, comforteth the
heauye harted, and erecteth a contemplatyon of heauenlye
thinges. Astronomye, reuealeth the nature of the Starres and
Planets, presageth dayes and times