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To the Right Honourable IT
Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton,
and Baron of Titchfield.
The love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end; whereof this pamphlet
without beginning is but a superfluous moiety. The warrant I have of your
Honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured
of acceptance. What I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours, being
part in all I have devoted yours. Were my worth greater, my duty would show
greater; meantime, as it is, it is bound to your Lordship, to whom I wish long
life still lengthened with all happiness.
Your Lordship’s in all duty,
William Shakespeare.
