The Rape of Lucrece
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- Shakespeare. TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,
Earl of Southampton, and Baron of Tichfield.
- Shakespeare. The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end; whereof
this pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety.
5 The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth
of my untutored lines, makes 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
show greater; meantime, as it is, it is bound to your lordship,
10 to whom I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness.
- Shakespeare. Your lordship's in all duty,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
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