Ornamented with Three Portraits, by Bartolozzi, &c. LONDON: PRINTED FOR EDWARD JEFFERY, No. 11, PALL-MALL. Price, One Guinea in Boards. BIBL DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. Portrait of SHAKSPEARE to face Title. CAPELL, after his History of the Origin of -Earl SOUTHAMPTON before Dedication to E. Blackader, Printer, TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESL Y, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TITCHFIELD. RIGHT HONOURABLE, I KNOW not how I fhall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will cenfure me for choosing so strong a prop to fupport so weak a burthen: only if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with fome graver labour. But if the firft heir of my invention prove deformed, I fhall be forry it had fo noble a godfather, and never after ear fo barren a land, for fear it yield me still fo bad a harvest. I leave it to your honourable furvey, and your honour to your heart's content; which I wish may always answer your own with, and the world's hopeful expectation. 1 Your Honour's in all duty, WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. |