The Arte of English Poesie
This Booke (right Honorable) coming to my handes, with his bare title without any Authours name or any
other ordinarie addresse, I doubted how well it might become me to make you a present thereof, seeming by
many expresse passages in the same at large, that it was by the Authour intended to our Soueraigne Lady the
Queene, and for her recreation and seruice chiefly deuised, in which case to make any other person her
highnes partener in the honour of his guift it could not stand with my dutie, nor be without some prejudice to
her Maiesties interest and his merrite.
This Booke (right Honorable) coming to my handes, with his bare title without any Authours name or any
other ordinarie addresse, I doubted how well it might become me to make you a present thereof, seeming by
many expresse passages in the same at large, that it was by the Authour intended to our Soueraigne Lady the
Queene, and for her recreation and seruice chiefly deuised, in which case to make any other person her
highnes partener in the honour of his guift it could not stand with my dutie, nor be without some prejudice to
her Maiesties interest and his merrite.