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To
the
most
Noble
and
Incomparable
pair
of
Brethren,
William
Earl
of
Pembroke,
&c.
Lord
Chamberlain
to
the
Kings
most
Excellent
Majesty
;
AND
Philip
E.
of
Montgomery,
&c.
Gentleman
to
his
Majesties
Bed-Chamber.
Both
Knights
of
the
most
Noble
Order
of
the
Garter,
and
our
singular
good
LORDS,
Right
Honourable,
w
HILST
we
study
to
be
thankful
in
our
particular,
for
the
many
Favours
we
have
received
from
your
L.
L.
we
are
faln
upon
the
ill
fortune,
to
mingle
two
the
most
diverse
things
that
can
be,
fear,
and
rashness,
in
the
enterprise,
and
fear
of
the
success:
For,
when
we
value
the
places
your
H.
H.
sustain,
we
cannot
but
know
their
dignity
greater,
than
to
descend
to
the
reading
of
these
trifles
:
and
while
we
name
them
trifles,
we
have
depriv’d
our
selves
of
the
defence
of
our
Dedication.
But
since
your
L
L.
have
been
pleas’d
to
think
these
trifles
something
heretofore,
and
have
prosecuted
both
them,
and
their
Author
living,
with
so
much
favour
:
we
hope,
(that
they
out
living
him,
and
he
not
having
the
fate,
common
with
some,
to
be
Executor
to
his
own
writings)
you
will
use
the
same
indulgence
toward
them,
you
have
done
unto
their
parent.
There
is
a
great
difference,
whether
any
Book
chuse
his
Patrons,
or
find
them:
This
hath
done
both.
For,
so
much
were
your
L.
L.
likings
of
the
several
parts,
when
they
were
Acted,
as
before
they
were
pub-
lished,
the
Volume
ask’d
to
be
yours.
We
have
but
collected
them,
and
done
an
office
to
the
dead,
to
procure
his
Orphans,
Guradians
;
without
ambition
either
of
self-profit,
or
fame:
only
to
keep
the
memory
of
so
worthy
a
Friend
and
Fellow
alive,
as
was
our
Shakespear,
by
humble
offer
of
his
Plays,
to
your
most
Noble
Patronage:
Wherein
as
we
have
justly
observed,
no
man
to
come
near
your
L.
L.
but
with
a
kind
of
religious
address;
it
hath
been
the
height
of
our
care,
who
are
the
Presenters,
to
make
the
Present
worthy
of
your
H.
H.
by
the
Perfection:
But
there
we
must
also
crave
our
abilities
to
be
considered,
my
Lords.
We
cannot
go
beyond
our
own
powers
:
Countrey
hands
reach
forth
Milk,
A
Cream,