133 The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON,
and Baron of Titchfield.
The love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end; whereof this pamphlet,
without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety. 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, to whom I wish long
life, still lengthened with all happiness.
Your Lordship’s in all duty,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.