[THE AUTHORS FIRST EPISTLE-DEDICATORY (1605).
[Collated with the Bridgwater House copy.]
Ed by the swift report of winged Fame,
With siluer trumpet, sounding forth your name
To you I dedicate this merry Muse,
And for my Patron, I your fauour chuse:
She is a Lady, she must be respected:
She is a Queene, she may not be neglected.
This is the shadow, you the substance haue,
Which substance now this shadow seems to craue.
RICHARD BARNFIELD.]
