SIr, Sir, to gra-tulate your safe return frõ from Ireland,I had no-thing so readie, nor thought any thing so meete, as these sweete conceited Sonets, the deede of that weldeseruing weldeserving gentle-man, maister Edmond Spen-ser: whose name sufficiently giue give warranting the worthinesse of the work: I do more con-fidently presume to publish it in his absence, vnder under your name to whom (in my poore opinion) the patronage therof, doth in some respectes properly appertaine. For, besides your iudgement judgement and delighte in learned poesie: This gentle Muse for her former perfection long wished for in Englande, nowe at the length crossing the Seas in your happy companye, (though to your selfe vn-known un-known) seemeth to make choyse of you, as meetest to Dedicatory. giue give  her deserued deserved counte-naunce, after her retourne: entertaine her, then, (Right worshipfull) in sorte best be-seeming your gentle minde,and her merite, and take in worth my good will herein, who seeke no more, but to shew my selfe yours in all dutifull af-fection.