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“If Palmerin hath sustained any wrong by my bad translation, being so worthily set down in other languages, your Honour, having such special knowledge in them, I hope will let slip any fault escaped in respect I have done my goodwill, the largest talent I have to bestow.”

A modest defence of his work as a translator, offering goodwill as the measure of his effort · Dedicatory epistle, Palmerin d’Oliva (1588)

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Anthony Munday

c. 13 October 1560–10 August 1633

In the bustling, smoke-hung streets of Elizabethan London, where the clatter of hooves mingled with the cries of hawkers and the distant peal of church bells, a young man of quick wit and tireless pen emerged from the shadows of obscurity to become one of the most versatile, if underappreciated, literary figures of…

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