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<TITLE A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS>
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT, EARLE OF CARNARVAN,
MASTER FALCONER OF ENGLAND.
MY GOOD LORD, PARDON I BESEECH YOU MY BOLDNESSE,
IN PRESUMING TO SHELTER THIS COMOEDIE VNDER THE WINGS OF YOUR LORDSHIPS FAUOUR,
AND PROTECTION, I AM NOT IGNORANT (HAUING NEUER YET DESERU'D YOU IN MY SERUICE)
THAT IT CANNOT BUT MEETE WITH A SEUERE CONSTRUCTION, IF IN THE CLEMENCIE OF YOUR
NOBLE DISPOSITION, YOU FASHION NOT A BETTER DEFENCE FOR MEE, THAN I CAN FANCIE
FOR MY SELFE. ALL I CAN ALLEAGE IS, THAT DIUERS ITALIAN PRINCES, AND LORDS
OF EMINENT RANCKE IN ENGLAND, HAUE NOT DISDAIN'D TO RECEAUE, AND READ POEMS OF
THIS NATURE, NOR AM I WHOLY LOST IN MY HOPES, BUT THAT YOUR HONOR (WHO HAUE
EUER EXPREST YOUR SELFE A FAUOURER, AND FRIEND TO THE MUSES) MAY VOUCHSAFE
IN YOUR GRATIOUS ACCEPTANCE OF THIS TRIFLE, TO GIUE ME ENCOURAGEMENT, TO PRESENT
YOU WITH SOME LABOUR'D WORKE, AND OF A HIGHER STRAINE HEREAFTER, I WAS BORNE
A DEUOTED SERUANT, TO THE THRICE NOBLE FAMILY OF YOUR . . .
