owne writings) you will use the like indulgence toward them,
you have done unto their parent. There is a great difference,
whether any Booke choose his Patrones, or finde them: This hath
done both. For, so much were your L. L. likings of the severall
parts, when they were acted, as before they were published, the
Volume ask'd to be yours. We have but collected them, and done
an office to the dead, to procure his Orphanes, Guardians; without
ambition either of selfe-profit, or fame: onely to keepe the memory
of so worthy a Friend,& Fellow alive, as was our S H A K E S
P E A R E, by humble offer of his playes, to your most noble
patronage. Wherein, as we have justly observed, no man to come
neere your L. L. but with a kind of religious addresse; it hath bin
the height of our care, who are the Presenters,
