TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,EARL OF
SOUTHHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TICHFIELD.
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.