the love i dedicate to your lordship is without end: whereof this pamphlet, without beginning is but a superfluous moiety.the warrant ihave of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, make 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 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