Ornamented with Three Portraits, by Bartolozzi, &c. LONDON: PRINTED FOR EDWARD JEFFERY, No. 11, PALL-MALL, Price, One Guinea in Beards, Portrait of SHAKSPEARE to face Title. Capell, after his History of the Origin of Earl SOUTHAMPTON before Dedication to TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TITCHFIELD. RIGHT HONOURABLE, I know not how I fall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen : only if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest. I leave it to your honourable survey, and your honour to your heart's content; which I wish may always answer your own wish, and the world's hopeful expectation. graver labour. 1 Your Honour's in all duty, WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. |