TO THE MOST NOBLE
AND
INCOMPARABLE PAIRE
OF BRETHREN.
WILLIAM
Earle of Pembroke, &c. Lord Chamberlaine to the Kings most Excellent Maiesty.
AND
PHILIP
Earle of Montgomery, &c. Gentleman of his Maiesties
Bed-Chamber. Both Knights of the most Noble Order
of the Garter, and our singular good
LORDS.
Right Honourable,
Hilst we studie to be thankful in
our particular, for the many fauors we haue receiued from your L.L we are
falne vpon the ill fortune, to mingle two the most diuerse things that can
bee, feare, and rashnesse; rashnesse in the enterprize, and feare of the
successe. For, when we valew the places your H.H. sustaine, we cannot but
know their dignity greater, then to descend to the reading of these
trifles: and, vvhile we name them trifles, we haue depriu'd our selues of
the defence of our Dedication. But since your L.L. haue beene pleas'd to
thinke these trifles some-thing, heertofore; and haue prosequuted both
them, and their Authour liuing, vvith so much fauour: we hope, that (they
out-liuing him, and he not hauing the fate, common with some, to be
exequutor to his owne writings) you will vse the like indulgence toward
them, you haue done
Hilst we studie to be thankful in
our particular, for the many fauors we haue receiued from your L.L we are
falne vpon the ill fortune, to mingle two the most diuerse things that can
bee, feare, and rashnesse; rashnesse in the enterprize, and feare of the
successe. For, when we valew the places your H.H. sustaine, we cannot but
know their dignity greater, then to descend to the reading of these
trifles: and, vvhile we name them trifles, we haue depriu'd our selues of
the defence of our Dedication. But since your L.L. haue beene pleas'd to
thinke these trifles some-thing, heertofore; and haue prosequuted both
them, and their Authour liuing, vvith so much fauour: we hope, that (they
out-liuing him, and he not hauing the fate, common with some, to be
exequutor to his owne writings) you will vse the like indulgence toward
them, you haue done
