MOMost
brauebrave and bountifull La:
for so excellent
fauoursfavours as I
hauehave
receiuedreceived at your sweet
handes, to offer
these fewe
leauesleaves as in recompence,
should be as to offer flowers
to the Gods for their
diuinedivine benefites.
Therefore
I
hauehave determined to
giuegive my
selfe wholy to you,
as quite
abandoned from my selfe, and absolutely
vowed to your
seruicesservices: which
in all right is
euerever held for full recompence of debt or
damage
to
hauehave the person yeelded. My person I wot wel
how little worth it is.
But the faithfull minde
&and
humble zeale which I beare
vntounto your La:
may
perhaps be more of price, as may please you to account and
vseuse the poore
seruiceservice
thereof; which taketh glory to
aduanceadvance your excellent
partes and
noble vertues, and to spend it selfe in
honouring
you: not
so much for your great bounty to my self,
which yet may not be
vnmindedunminded;
nor for name or
kindreds sake by you vouchsafed, beeing also
regardable;
as for that honorable name, which yee
hauehave by your
brauebrave
deserts purchast
to your self,
&and spred in the mouths of al
mẽmen:
vvithwith
vvhichwhich I
hauehave also presumed to grace my verses,
&and
vnderunder
your name to
cõmendcommend to
the
vvorldworld this smal
Poëme, the
vvhichwhich beseeching your La: to take in
vvorthworth, and of all things therein according to
your
vvontedwonted graciousnes
to make a
milde construction, I humbly pray for your happines.